Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 9 months (Management is willing to consider fixed term contract.)
- Hours
- Full time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00)
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-8262825
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Larkbarrow House
- Town
- Beckenham
- Salary
- £45,953 - £54,254 pro rata per annum Incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Perinatal Mental Health Occupational Therapist/Community Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
About the role:
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident Community Practitioner / OT to join our Community Perinatal Teams across the Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark teams.
You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.
Main duties of the job
You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.
You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.
Working for our organisation
About the team:
The Croydon Perinatal Service provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users residing within the Borough of Croydon offering assessment, intervention and treatment to women who suffer from moderate to severe mental health disorders in the perinatal period.
Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London wide. This is a great opportunity to supervise junior staff as well as implementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.
About the location
You will based at Larkbarrow House, Bethlem Royal Hospital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To be personally responsible and professionally accountable for a caseload as part of the perinatal community team and support/supervise the work of others as required.
• Co-ordinating care, communicating with other professionals involved in the care and ensuring regular CPA reviews are held as required. This will include communication with other teams for example Maternity Services, Primary care, CAMHS services, Children’s Social Care
• Independently carrying out assessment, care planning and care coordination with excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen to others’ views, respect and value individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Leading pre-birth planning meetings when necessary, with community team members, midwives and health visitors and social care to coordinate, in order to provide coordinated, comprehensive and supportive care plans for women and their families in the antenatal and postnatal period.
• Recognising and addressing concerns about the physical health needs of service users with long term conditions (e.g. diabetes, asthma etc.); escalating these concerns as necessary to senior members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration (NMC / OT / SW)
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Community Care coordination experience
- Understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
- Significant relevant clinical experience – 2 year minimum working in Mental Health settings.
- An interest in working in Community Perinatal Mental Health Team
- Experience as a preceptor / mentor / supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding social inclusion for women with mental health issues during the perinatal period
- Knowledge of how mental health problems impact on their babies/child development
- Experience of working with children and/or families
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user’s needs, without close supervision
- Skills in clinical assessment/baseline mental health assessment
- Skills in risk assessment and risk management and crisis management
- Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others
Desirable criteria
- Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Willey
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Sam Chong
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