Job overview

Occupational Therapist, Band 5

12 month Maternity leave Cover - Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary ward team, which is professionally supported by a Band 7 Clinical Specialist OT.  It is a friendly and supportive team and we welcome new staff and the innovative ideas and skills they bring. The post involves occupational therapy specific work, on a female ward with opportunities including:

• Carrying an inpatient caseload, including doing assessments and 1:1 interventions to build functional and social skills.
• Working closely with the ward Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) and the outpatient MDT (Home Treatment and Community Mental Health Teams)
• Group interventions.

This post provides an excellent mix of opportunities to develop your occupational therapy career.   The postholder will offer assessments and promote occupational functioning and wellbeing on the ward while also facilitating safe and effective discharges.  

Main duties of the job

• To manage a clinical caseload
• To work as a member of the MDT
• To support the development of evidence-based OT practice
• To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to: self-care, work and leisure
• To contribute to service development

• To work independently without direct supervision
• To develop skills, knowledge and experience through participation in Oxleas AHP Preceptorship Programme and the Trust-wide Band 5 OT Support Group

Working for our organisation

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