# Occupational Therapist/Care Coordinator

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £38488.00 to £46852.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join a high-impact Assertive Outreach Service making a real difference across Southwark. This is a standout opportunity to be part of a dynamic service, supporting people with serious and enduring mental illness through focused, intensive, and creative interventions. Working across community hubs borough-wide, the role offers flexibility in location and approach, shaped around caseload needs. A strengths-based, responsive model sits at the heart of the service--adapting to each individual's perspective, interests, and changing priorities. As an Occupational Therapist in a Care Coordinator role, specialist skills are central; delivering innovative OT assessments and interventions that actively support recovery. The role includes recovery-focused care coordination and co-facilitation of a varied group programme grounded in an occupational perspective--recognising the vital relationship between person, environment, and meaningful activity. Professional development is a priority, with regular clinical supervision from a Senior OT and strong integration within the Southwark Community OT network. Monthly forums provide space to share best practice, reflect, and drive ongoing CPD.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide care co-ordination and case management to a defined caseload of service users within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA).

- Carry out MDT activities, such as assessments and duty responsibilities.

- Be community focussed, agile, and adaptable.

- Build a rapport with clients, whilst maintaining firm boundaries.

- Co-ordinate a first-class service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, working collaboratively with the individual, and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment and accurate records.

- Maintain a close interface with a variety of SLaM services, other statutory organisations, social care and voluntary sector.

**Person Specification** **Qualifications**

- Relevant professional qualification with affiliated professional registration - Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration.

**Experience**

- Post-registration experience of working in a mental health setting.

- Evidence of continuing professional development.

- Experience of working with service users with complex difficulties, including substance misuse and physical health difficulties.

- Experience of working with service users experiencing a crisis related to their mental health.

- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.

**Knowledge/Skills**

- Knowledge of the Recovery Approach and an understanding of its application in community practice.

- Knowledge of CPA, Community Care Act, Carers Act, Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation as application to practice.

- Skills in clinical assessment / baseline mental health assessment.

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Care Coordination
- Mental Health
- Substance Misuse

### Nice to have
- Care coordination / case management
- Service improvement/evaluation project
- Providing guidance to students and/or junior colleagues
- Psycho-social interventions
- Working with people experiencing psychosis

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