Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust seeks two highly skilled Occupational Therapists to join their team. The role involves providing specialist interventions for women experiencing mental health needs during pregnancy and postpartum. Candidates will benefit from excellent training opportunities and work closely with various health services to improve outcomes for mothers and their families.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Access to conferences and simulation training

Qualifications

• Three years experience post qualification in mental health services, including supervision.
• Experience in perinatal mental health care is required.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage a caseload of women during the perinatal period.
• Plan and evaluate occupational therapy interventions.
• Supervise and teach staff.

Skills

Supervision

Clinical assessment

Intervention planning

Education

Occupational Therapy professional qualification

Leadership training

Clinical supervision training

Job description

Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 06 July 2025

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!

Job 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

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.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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