Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: 6 rotations x 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21270
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Langley Green Hospital
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist - Rotation
NHS AfC: Band 5
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Band 5 Occupational Therapy (OT) rotation in our Crawley area. This is a mixed rotational scheme offering mental health rotations at Langley Green Hospital with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, with additional options for physical health rotations with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. Each rotation is 6 months in length and provides great opportunities for skills and competencies development.
The rotation is open to new OT graduates, final year OT students, and more experienced OTs who wish to broaden their clinical skills in new areas of practice. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated occupational therapists, who have a drive for clinical excellence working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The rotation offers mental health and physical health rotations in a variety of settings across north West Sussex.
Mental Health rotations include:
- Older Adults Acute Mental Health
- Working Age Acute Mental Health
- Mental Health PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit)
Physical Health rotations include:
- Community Therapy Team
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
Please note interviews will be held in person.
Main duties of the job
This rotation offers the chance to consolidate your knowledge and develop OT specific and generic skills that are transferable across teams and service user groups. You will gain a range of mental health and physical health experiences in hospital-based and community settings. You will receive full support as we encourage development of your core OT skills within well-established therapy teams. We are looking for someone who will make the most of the opportunities this role provides, and who can foster effective working relationships with professionals and with service users.
You will assess and deliver evidence-based OT interventions that optimise independent functioning in self-care, productivity and leisure activities, and facilitate wellbeing from an occupational perspective.
Interventions take place on the hospital ward, and in home environments and community settings, with flexibility of working required to meet service user needs.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care and there is an expectation to be involved in service improvement projects happening within our teams. As well as developing new skills, we look to the innovation and dynamism you can bring.
Please note that we welcome applications from students who are awaiting their HCPC registration (please declare in your application that you are qualified and awaiting your registration).
Working for our organisation
All Occupational Therapists have access to supervision, yearly appraisal and CPD networks.
For newly qualified Occupational Therapist we offer a Preceptorship programme.
Additional training is supported and encouraged, together with leadership development programmes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be a core member of the local clinical team, using mental health and occupational therapy assessments.
- To manage a caseload of clients with mental health needs
- To plan and implement client centred individual and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
- To identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan.
- To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
- To apply an understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyles changes and adaptations to the client’s social and physical environment.
- To carry out carers assessments and implement a plan of care accordingly.
- Have a basic working knowledge of the medication prescribed for the persons in their care. To include usual dosage, common side effects and the need for any special monitoring. Any reported or observed side effects must be brought to the attention of the prescriber.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in occupational therapy
- Registration with the HCPC as an occupational therapist
- Evidence of successful completion of a RCOT standard preceptorship programme
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience running groups/activities
- Experience of being supervised
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
- Anna Solieri
- Job title
- Professional Lead OT, Northwest Sussex
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738 757875
- Additional information
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