Occupational Therapist - Band 5 & 6 equivalent Opportunities

St Andrew's Healthcare; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Sickness policy (NHS)

Blue Light Card discounts

27 days annual leave

Life cover

Electric car lease

Cycle to work

Healthcare cash plan

Free parking

Paid DBS application

Job summary

We are seeking an energetic Occupational Therapist to join our Birmingham OT team. The role is based at Stirchley, Birmingham, with 37.5 hours per week and Band 5/6 equivalent salaries.

You will work in an inpatient adult mental health service as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering OT assessments and treatments, developing a caseload, and supporting service improvement and professional development.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of mental health diagnoses and secure services.
• Familiar with guiding frameworks (e.g., MOHO, sensory approaches).
• Experience using occupational assessment tools to support clinical reasoning.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Resilience and curiosity in a challenging environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a multi-disciplinary clinical team and manage a clinical caseload.
• Provide OT assessments and treatment to groups and individuals.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships within the clinical team.
• Apply OT processes to improve patient outcomes and promote the profession.
• Engage in the preceptorship programme and internal CPD events.

Skills

Mental health knowledge

Clinical frameworks

Occupational assessment tools

Strong communication

Resilience

Curiosity

Job description

We are currently looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and ambitious Occupational Therapist to join our Birmingham OT team.

Birmingham Service, Inpatient Adult Mental Health

Band 5 and 6 opportunites available

Location: Stirchley, Birmingham

Occupational Therapist Band 5 equivalent Salary: From £30,989

Specialist Occupational Therapist Band 6 equivalent Salary: From £38,729

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

A Bit About Us

We are St Andrew's a mental health charity with a clear purpose: to inspire hope for people living with complex mental health needs. Our Birmingham site is on an ambitious improvement journey.

St Andrew's Birmingham is a 125 bedded secure adult mental healthcare facility comprises of eight units that cover medium and low security for both Men and Women. Located in Stirchley, a vibrant area in South Birmingham, easily accessible by road networks and public transport.

The Birmingham site has eight wards within a self-contained secure environment. There are a mix of low and medium secure wards with two wards offering services to women and male older adults. The site offers care and treatment to people with complex mental health and personality disorder diagnoses who require secure services. The service also benefits from other therapy resources such as an Art Studio, Workshop, Gym, Sports Hall, music space and courtyard area for horticulture.

Within the Occupational Therapy team, we offer comprehensive treatment through the medium of meaningful occupation. Our aim is to equip patients with the life skills required to live a life worth living through improved health and wellbeing, independence, purpose and balance within their daily living.

The Person and Role

You will contribute to a multi-disciplinary clinical team, taking responsibility for a clinical caseload, and offering OT specific assessment and treatment to groups and individuals within your care. Strong communication skills are essential, both written and verbal, with the ability to develop good professional relationships with your clinical team and the wider professional team.

You will be able to show a good understanding of occupational therapy within inpatient services; demonstrating the hope occupational therapists bring to the lives of those in our care. You will also be able to share your experience of applying the OT process to achieve positive patient outcomes and demonstrate how you promote the profession within your clinical team.

The charity values the importance of continued professional development. This includes a personal development plan with access to a preceptorship programme, internal CPD events, networking opportunities with colleagues and external training were deemed clinically appropriate.

You Should Have

• Knowledge of mental health diagnoses and/or secure services
• An interest, knowledge and understanding of a range of guiding theoretical frameworks and approaches. For example, Model of Human Occupation, VdT MoCA, occupational science, occupational diagnosis and sensory approaches.
• Knowledge and experience in using occupational assessment tools to support clinical reasoning, treatment planning and evaluation of interventions.
• Strong communication skills
• Resilience and curiosity

Previous experience within mental health, healthcare, social care or a secure environment would be beneficial, although we are also keen to hear from candidates who can demonstrate the right values, attitude and transferable skills.

Rewards

• Pension
• Sickness policy on par with the NHS
• Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes
• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing after 10 years' service
• Life cover
• Electric Car lease scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• Free parking
• Paid DBS application

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew's CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.