Mental Health Practitioner jobs in United Kingdom

The closing date is 04 January 2026

The Occupational Therapist will manage a defined caseload and will carry out OT assessments, treatment and evaluation of interventions to identify barriers to an individual's level of functioning in important occupations and within relevant contexts.

They will scaffold improvements in occupational performance, using graded treatment programmes, on an individual or group work basis, to enable and rehabilitate functional participation in identified occupations, maximising independence within the individual's living and community environments, including people and places.

Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines.

• The post holder will participate in the delivery of an evidence‑based Occupational Therapy service, providing occupation‑focused intervention.
• This will involve collaboration with the multi‑disciplinary team, to support the workings of the wider team with information gathering, assessment, synthesis of assessment findings, provision of occupation‑focused verbal and written feedback to the MDT, and third sector as necessary, in support of formulation, intervention and discharge planning.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long‑term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, 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.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and contributing to the therapeutic structure.
• To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi‑disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high‑quality patient records.
• To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence‑based intervention e.g. CBT, DBT, Motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, providing groups and activities in line with the recovery model.
• To provide leadership for clinicians delivering therapeutic interventions in the Adult Eating Disorder Service and act as a positive role model around new ways of working and professional relationships.
• To provide operational management & professional leadership to clinicians working across the Adult Eating Disorder service.
• To provide specialist advice to professionals and managers, including in relation to professional governance.
• To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessments, advice and interventions using advanced, clinical reasoning skills.
• To provide support, education and professional leadership to non‑registered staff and students.
• To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance, providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user’s social and physical environments.
• To undertake the delivery of specialist occupational focused interventions including sensory and enabling approaches.
• To comply with the HCPC standards and the COT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. This includes providing evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and participation in professional supervision.
• To maintain your own continuing professional development (CPD) by maintaining an awareness of innovations and developments, and to incorporate them as appropriate into your practice.
• To participate in research and audit in the clinical field.
• To encourage and develop service user and carer involvement.
• To support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints.
• To undertake any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Service manager.

• Degree or extensive clinical experience
• Professional qualifications in Mental Health Nursing, OT or Social Work
• Completion of Mentorship/Coaching Course or intention to complete
• Evidence of Continuous professional development
• Qualification in evidence‑based psychological therapy relevant to eating disorders

• Experience of working alongside people with complex eating disorders
• Experience of supervising staff clinically
• Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care pathway
• Extensive experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non‑statutory teams and agencies.
• Extensive understanding of clinical governance.
• Extensive experience of working within the CPA process
• Experience of leading clinical staff or teams in practice improvement
• Lived experience of mental health issues

• Advanced Clinical Skills in the delivery of psychological therapies, assessment, planning and delivery of therapeutic intervention
• Provision of specialist clinical advice in relation to care delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent ability to develop effective professional relationships with others, (individuals and groups.
• Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters.
• Develop own skills and knowledge and impart information to others to facilitate their development
• Strong ability to innovate and implement change
• Skills in influencing, empowering, developing and shaping the behaviours of others.
• Advanced skills in problem solving
• The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations
• Ability to use manual handling techniques
• Excellent understanding of the relevant professional Code and its application in practice.
• Knowledge of MH Act
• Knowledge of NICE guidance and other National guidance relevant to delivery of care and safe clinical practice
• Advanced specialist knowledge of clinical assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group.

• Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines.

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum, pro rata