# Senior Occupational Therapist **Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust **Location**: Tooting **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9294-26-0417?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_904dff1d-18c ## Description This is an exciting opportunity to join the Forensic Outreach Service in one of the dedicated clinical posts supporting a new forensic step-down supported living service, scheduled to open in January 2027. The Service will be delivered as part of the SWLSTG Adult Secure discharge and step-down pathway, commissioned through the South London Partnership (SLP) Adult Secure Provider Collaborative Programme. The successful candidate will work within the Forensic Directorate in providing Occupational Therapy input to individuals living within the Forensic Step-Down Service. The post holder will play a key role within the Forensic Step-Down Accommodation Service, supporting individuals with complex mental health needs and forensic histories to successfully transition from secure or inpatient settings to independent community living. The role involves delivering specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions using evidence-based, recovery-focused approaches and the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) to promote meaningful engagement in daily activities, enhance independence, and support social inclusion. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, the Occupational Therapist will contribute to risk assessment and management, care planning, CPA reviews, MAPPA processes, and multi-agency working, while providing clinical supervision and support to junior staff and students. The post holder will also champion equality, accessibility and inclusion, ensuring that service users are supported to achieve their recovery goals and maximise their quality of life within the community. **Job Responsibilities:** - To provide a specialist occupational therapy service within the Forensic step-down service for service users with complex mental health needs and forensic histories. - To deliver evidence-based, person-centred occupational therapy assessments, interventions and outcome measures, informed by the Model of Human Occupation and recovery-focused principles. - To manage a defined caseload, delivering interventions flexibly across a range of community and clinical settings. - To contribute to delegated occupational therapy and multidisciplinary projects within the service, with support from senior staff. - To act as Disability Champion, promoting equality, accessibility and inclusion, and supporting the team to meet disability equality standards. - To provide clinical supervision, guidance and support to junior occupational therapy staff, support staff and students on placement. - To work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary community team, liaising effectively with inpatient services, community services and external agencies to support coordinated care. - To contribute to multidisciplinary decision-making through attendance at relevant meetings, including CPA reviews, risk management meetings and tribunals where appropriate. - To contribute to multi-agency working, including participation in MAPPA processes where required. - To work within relevant legal frameworks, including the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, as appropriate to the role. - To respond flexibly to clinical demands, including prioritising urgent referrals and working jointly with colleagues as required to meet service user needs. **Benefits:** - Flexible working - Career development - Various benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment **Person Specification:** **Education, Training & Qualifications:** - Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy - HCPC Registration - Evidence of post registration training relevant to mental health/ forensic practice **Experience:** - Experience of carrying a caseload in a mental health setting - Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team - Experience of individual and group interventions - Experience of maintaining a continual professional development portfolio - Experience of participating in a service development initiative **Knowledge and Skills:** - Effective interpersonal and communication skills to develop therapeutic relationships with complex service users - Strong written communication and report writing skills - Ability to reflect on and critically evaluate own practice - Ability to build effective clinical relationships across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams ## Skills ### Required - Occupational Therapy - Mental Health - Forensic Practice - Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) - Recovery-focused approaches ### Nice to have - Membership of RCOT - Experience of supervising junior staff or students - Completion of preceptorship --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9294-26-0417?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)