Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,751 - £60,651 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 April 2026 |
| Location: | Beckenham, BR3 3QL |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7886309/277-7886309-CMH |
Summary
The Occupational Therapist (OT) will be responsible for the delivery and review of the occupational therapy services across the Anxiety, Depression, Affective Disorders, Personality Disorders and Trauma (ADAPT) pathway, ensuring the occupational needs of the service users are addressed.
Working closely with the multi-disciplinary team, the postholder will provide specialist occupational assessments and interventions to promote meaningful engagement, independence and social inclusion. This will include delivering group based interventions to support recovery.
You will coordinate care for a small, defined caseload within the ADAPT service. and contribute to step-down planning to support service users' discharge to primary care services. As a clinical specialist OT, the postholder will offer clinical supervision and support service improvement initiatives as required.
The post offers the opportunity to develop your clinical leadership skills, by supporting the clinical lead with quality improvement initiatives and clinical leadership roles, You will be expected to develop and review the occupational therapy offer within the ADAPT service, ensuring a clear OT pathway is embedded in the team.
Your clinical role will be embedded in the ADAPT West team where you will be responsible for carrying out skilled assessments and delivering interventions across occupational domains. You will also be required to take on the role of lead healthcare professional for a small group of complex service users.
In applying occupational therapy models you will work from an evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. You will also contribute to delivering group interventions as required.
You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as a range of other agencies. You will also be responsible for providing supervision for staff within the team, contributing to the management of the referral system and assisting the team manager with quality improvement and other specific clinical tasks.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To manage a clinical caseload
• To work as a member of the MDT
• To lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice
• To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to:
-Self care
-Work
-Leisure
• To Care co-ordinate a small generic caseload. Maximum percentage of role as care co-ordinator is 30%.
• To lead on service development
• To lead/participate in research/audit activities.
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans.
• To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
• To work independently without direct supervision
• To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions for the client group.
• To provide clinical support and leadership for junior staff, and OT students on fieldwork placement
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service
• To undertake identified generic responsibilities for an agreed percentage of time.
• To follow an agreed Job Plan
• To work with clients who have complex needs and challenging behaviour.
• To adhere to Trust’s requirements for management of violence training relevant to clinical area
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Apr 2026
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