Occupational Therapist

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Godalming; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist (Band 6) for a 4-month bank contract at the Godalming site. The role offers flexible working patterns, typically 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday with options from 9:00–17:00 or 8:00–16:00.

The post involves community links and mental health pathways within Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will deliver high quality, evidence-based OT assessments, plan interventions, provide

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is required.
• Occupational Therapy Professional Qualification is required.
• Completion of a Fieldwork Educators’ course is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments and interventions.
• Communicate effectively with service users, carers, and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
• Provide supervision and mentoring to junior staff and therapy learners.
• Provide occupational therapy student placements.
• Contribute to service development and audits.
• Take on lead professional role for individuals’ care as appropriate.

Education

Occupational Therapy Professional Qualification

HCPC Registration

Fieldwork Educators’ course

Job description

Main area Occupational Therapist Grade Band 6 Contract Bank: 4 months (Review for possible extension) Hours Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday from 9 to 5PM or 8 to 4 PM) Job ref 384-SM-OT-B6

Employer Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Berkeley House, 11-13 Ockford Road, Town Godalming, Salary £25.83 - £40.60 hourly Rate Salary period Hourly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Occupational Therapist

Band 6

Job overview

Surrey and Borders is looking for an Occupational Therapist who delivers high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments, interventions and consultations to enable people who access services to reach their full potential.

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9am to 17pm

Main duties of the job

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, co-ordinated CPD programme including a robust supervision structure, care group meetings, Trust wide and core competence training and an annual conference. Staff is valued for their expertise in occupationally focussed interventions and specialist group therapy.

This post is suitable if you have had previous experience of working in mental health, you want to consolidate your knowledge of occupational therapy and be involved in delivering high quality, evidence based, outcome measured occupational therapy interventions. This post also gives you an opportunity to develop skills in care coordinating service users with an occupational therapy focus and being part of the assessment team.

The candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role.

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.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Overview

1. To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
2. To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
3. To contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
4. To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, support workers and activities coordinators, and therapy assistants (as appropriate)
5. To provide occupational therapy student placements.
6. To contribute to service development and audits.
7. To take on the role of lead professional for individuals care as appropriate.

The job will be within our Waverley Neighbourhood Mental Health service and be working across Serious Mental Illness/Complex Emotional Needs and Frailty/Later life pathways, The postholder will be expected to work flexibly to support the provision of the OT care pathway across the locality.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Occupational Therapy Professional Qualification
• HCPC Registration
• Completion of a Fieldwork Educators’ course

Experience

• Relevant Clinical Experience
• Experience of using relevant occupational therapy assessment and implementing interventions
• Experience in applying knowledge of the impact of health and disability on occupational performance, participation and identity
• Experience of using multiple occupational frames of reference and approaches
• Experience of contributing to service development/project work
• Experience as a supervisor
• Experience of group facilitation
• Experience working with the elderly

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.