Advanced Practitioner - Occupational Therapy | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider in the UK is seeking an Occupational Therapist to manage a defined caseload and deliver evidence-based interventions. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team, and providing leadership for therapeutic services. The ideal candidate will have strong clinical reasoning and leadership skills, as well as the ability to work independently across the region. This position offers an opportunity for professional growth and development within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Supportive team environment

Leadership roles available

Qualifications

• Ability to travel independently across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
• Experience in occupational therapy, particularly in adult mental health.
• Familiarity with professional governance and CPD requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload and carry out assessments.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team on interventions.
• Provide leadership for the Adult Eating Disorder Service.
• Maintain high standards of patient records and clinical contribution.
• Participate in clinical audits and research.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Leadership

Communication

Time management

CBT

DBT

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Tools

Evidence-based intervention techniques

Job description

The Occupational Therapist will manage a defined caseload and will carry out OT assessments, treatment and evaluation of interventions to identify barriers to an individual’s level of functioning in important occupations and within relevant contexts.

They will scaffold improvements in occupational performance, using graded treatment programmes on individual or group work basis, to enable and rehabilitate functional participation in identified occupations, maximising independence within the individual’s living and community environments, including people and places.

Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines.

• The post holder will participate in the delivery of an evidence based Occupational Therapy service, providing occupation‑focused intervention.
• This will involve collaboration with the multi‑disciplinary team, to support the workings of the wider team with information gathering, assessment, synthesis of assessment findings, provision of occupation‑focused verbal and written feedback to the MDT, and third sector as necessary, in support of formulation, intervention and discharge planning.
• To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and contributing to the therapeutic structure.
• To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi‑disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high‑quality patient records.
• To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence‑based intervention e.g. CBT, DBT, Motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, providing groups and activities in line with the recovery model.
• To provide leadership for clinicians delivering therapeutic interventions in the Adult Eating Disorder Service and act as a positive role model around new ways of working and professional relationships.
• To provide operational management & professional leadership to clinicians working across the Adult Eating Disorder service.
• To provide specialist advice to professionals and managers, including in relation to professional governance.
• To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessments, advice and interventions using advanced, clinical reasoning skills.
• To provide support, education and professional leadership to non‑registered staff and students.
• To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance, providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user’s social and physical environments.
• To undertake the delivery of specialist occupational focused interventions including sensory and enabling approaches.
• To comply with the HCPC standards and the COT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. This includes providing evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and participation in professional supervision.
• To maintain your own continuing professional development (CPD) by maintaining an awareness of innovations and developments, and to incorporate them as appropriate into your practice.
• To participate in research and audit in the clinical field.
• To encourage and develop service user and carer involvement.
• To support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints.
• To undertake any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Service manager.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long‑term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026