Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

HwC Ventures; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading health provider as a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist supporting women in perinatal mental health. This role involves assessing and managing complex needs, working flexibly with a dedicated team, providing high quality therapeutic interventions, while gaining extensive training opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Three years experience post qualification in mental health services.
• Essential leadership training or relevant leadership experience.
• Driving licence suitable for driving in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Assess and contribute to the diagnosis of individuals referred to the service.
• Manage a caseload of women in the perinatal period.
• Evaluate the Occupational needs of individuals referred to the mental health service.

Skills

Assessment and diagnosis

Mental health intervention

Supervision and leadership

Education

Occupational Therapy professional qualification

Additional academic clinical qualification

Job description

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

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Job Summary

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 Summary

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.

About Us

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!

Details

Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£48,270 to £54,931 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

325-7135653-SS

Job locations

Unither House

Curfew Bell Road

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Job Description

Job responsibilities

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

Job Description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Three years experience post qualification in mental health services which must include experience of providing supervision
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in perinatal mental health care
• Clinical Supervision training/experience
• Fieldwork educators training/experience
  
  

Qualifications

Essential

• 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
  
  

Desirable

• Clinical supervision training
• Fieldwork educators training
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• 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
  
  

Desirable

• Clinical supervision training
• Fieldwork educators training
  
  

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

Unither House

Curfew Bell Road

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

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

Unither House

Curfew Bell Road

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Employer's website

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

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