Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

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Job summary

A leading NHS organization seeks highly skilled Occupational Therapists to provide specialist interventions to women in Surrey. You’ll assess and manage caseloads of mothers with mental health needs, offering support to improve their well-being during and after pregnancy. Join a top-rated team committed to excellence in mental health care.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements available

Qualifications

• 3 years experience post qualification in mental health services, with supervision.
• Experience in perinatal mental health care.
• Leadership training or relevant experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage a caseload of women with complex mental health needs.
• Provide both individual and group interventions.
• Supervise and teach staff.

Skills

Supervision

Mental Health Care

Occupational Therapy

Education

Occupational Therapy professional qualification

Additional academic clinical qualification

Clinical supervision training

Job description

Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday) Job ref 325-7135653-SS

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Unither House Town Chertsey Salary £48,270 - £54,931 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata. Salary period Yearly Closing 21/06/2025 23:59

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

We are looking for two highly motivated and skilled Occupational therapists to help grow the occupational therapy team and to provide specialist interventions both individually and in group settings to women across Surrey. The posts are for our NW team, based at Unither House in Chertsey and for our SW team, based at Berkeley House in Godalming. You will link with your peer covering the East side of the service and have access to support from an OT assistant part time.

Job Overview:

• To assess and contribute to the diagnosis of individuals referred to the Perinatal service.
• To manage a caseload of women in the perinatal period with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs, providing interventions which support and promote improved mental and physical health for mothers, babies and their families.
• To evaluate the Occupational needs of individuals referred to the perinatal mental health service.
• To plan, implement and evaluate occupational therapy interventions
• To supervise and teach staff.

Main duties of the job

Do you aspire to change people’s lives for the better?

Would you like to work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally?

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.

As a member of the team, you would provide specialist OT and biopsychosocial assessments and interventions to women during pregnancy, delivery and up to 24 months postnatal. The post holder will develop strong links with the Parent Infant mental health service, Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, Midwifery, Adult mental health, Children’s services, and the voluntary sector. The team works closely with the mental health midwives and obstetricians from the 5 local maternity units. You will hold a caseload of women for a specified locality and participate in triaging new referrals on a rotational basis supported by experienced team members.

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, coordinated CPD programme including supervision, care group and trust wide training, core competence training, and annual conferences.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

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.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Person specification

Experience

• Three years experience post qualification in mental health services which must include experience of providing supervision
• Experience in perinatal mental health care
• Clinical Supervision training/experience

Qualifications

• Occupational Therapy professional qualification
• A driving licence suitable for driving in the United Kingdom
• Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work
• Leadership training or relevant leadership experience
• Clinical supervision training

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Lindsey Mosley Job title Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07717440829