• Job Description

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  Job summary

  Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health

  Are you ready to lead and inspire?

  Join us as aLead Occupational Therapistin Adult Mental Health and take on an exciting role that combines leadership, clinical expertise, and transformative work.

  Why This Role?

  • Leadership & Governance: Provide clinical and leadership oversight and support to our adult communities' occupational therapists.
  • Clinical Excellence:Retain a clinical role, ensuring hands-on involvement and impact.
  • Flexible Working:Operate across the Trust, with responsibilities in West Surrey and North East Hants.
  • Professional Development:Benefit from a robust CPD program and development opportunities.
  • Innovative Practices:Utilize the Model of Human Occupation for assessments and interventions, offering both individual and group work.

  Be Part of a Dynamic Team

  • Collaborative Environment:Monthly leadership team meetings to drive strategic initiatives.
  • Supportive Network:Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to mental health transformation.

  Make a Difference

  If you're passionate about mental health and ready to lead, apply now and be a part of our mission to transform lives.

  The position provides leadership across the adult communities and based at Community Mental Health Recovery Services in East Surrey . The postholder will be expected to work flexibly within all the Communities services, as need arises.

  Apply Today!

  Main duties of the job

  Job Overview

  1. To provide compassionate and effective leadership to the occupational therapists within the service/locality/sector.

  2. To contribute to the overall leadership of the service/locality/sector.

  3. To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.

  4. To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporter/family members, stakeholders and agencies.

  5. To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.

  6. To ensure the delivery occupational therapy student placements.

  7. To lead on service development and audits both within individual services and the wider occupational therapy service.

  8. To be an active member of the overall occupational therapy leadership team.

  9. To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.

  About us

  Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

  We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

  Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

  Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

  We look forward to receiving your application!

  Date posted

  14 April 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £48,270 to £54,931 a year (Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  325-7090936-COMM

  Job locations

  Leatherhead HQ and East and Mid CMHRS bases in Epsom, Redhill and Tandridge

  18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road,

  Leatherhead, Surrey,

  KT22 7AD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications, skills and experinence

  Essential

  • oOccupational Therapy professional qualification
  • oExtensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with people who have complex needs
  • oExtensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
  • oHighly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
  • oExperience of contributing to service development/project work
  • oExperience of providing supervision
  • oExperience of supporting students on placement
  • oExperience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust
  • oUK driving license and access to a car for work purposes
  • oDemonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills

  Desirable

  • oIn depth knowledge of group therapy and experience of facilitating groups

  Qulaifications Skills and Experience

  Essential

  • HCPC registration

  Desirable

  • oClinical supervision training
  • oFieldwork educators training
  • oLeadership training
  • oAdditional academic or clinical qualifications/training relevant to area of practice

  Person Specification

  Qualifications, skills and experinence

  Essential

  • oOccupational Therapy professional qualification
  • oExtensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with people who have complex needs
  • oExtensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
  • oHighly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
  • oExperience of contributing to service development/project work
  • oExperience of providing supervision
  • oExperience of supporting students on placement
  • oExperience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust
  • oUK driving license and access to a car for work purposes
  • oDemonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills

  Desirable

  • oIn depth knowledge of group therapy and experience of facilitating groups

  Qulaifications Skills and Experience

  Essential

  • HCPC registration

  Desirable

  • oClinical supervision training
  • oFieldwork educators training
  • oLeadership training
  • oAdditional academic or clinical qualifications/training relevant to area of practice

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Leatherhead HQ and East and Mid CMHRS bases in Epsom, Redhill and Tandridge

  18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road,

  Leatherhead, Surrey,

  KT22 7AD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Leatherhead HQ and East and Mid CMHRS bases in Epsom, Redhill and Tandridge

  18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road,

  Leatherhead, Surrey,

  KT22 7AD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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