Band 6 Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an Occupational Therapist at HMP Ranby, working within The Hive, a specialist Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway service. You will assess occupational needs of service users with complex personality and trauma-related difficulties, designing and implementing rehabilitation plans. The position involves delivering interventions, including structured activities and therapeutic groups, to promote independence and functional living skills. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to risk assessments and advocating for occupational therapy in trauma recovery within a secure environment.
Key responsibilities
- Assess occupational needs of service users with complex personality, trauma-related, and psychosocial difficulties.
- Design, implement, and evaluate individualized rehabilitation plans that promote independence, purpose, and functional living skills.
- Conduct comprehensive specialist assessments, analyze complex information, and translate this into meaningful treatment goals.
- Deliver a wide range of interventions, including structured activities, graded therapeutic groups, and 1:1 sessions.
- Adapt interventions responsively, considering fluctuating clinical presentations, motivational barriers, emotional distress, and secure environment constraints.
- Contribute specialist occupational insights to case discussions, risk formulations, treatment planning, and service user reviews within a multidisciplinary team.
Essential criteria
- Bsc Honours (or equivalent) in Occupational Therapy.
- Minimum of two years post-registration experience in a relevant clinical area(s).
- Up to date knowledge of models of Occupational Therapy practice and practical application.
- The post holder must maintain professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an Occupational Therapist
- Ability to engage, inspire and motivate both service users and colleagues.
- Reliable and consistent in approach, demonstrating empathy and an open communication style with all team members and service users.
- Ability to respond professionally to unpredictable situations and environments.
- Ability to reflect on own practice and openness to new learning, challenges and change.
- Able to carry out Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with complex rehabilitation needs using a range of appropriate assessment tools and models of practice.
- Risk assessment skills for the safe management of complex service users.
- Experienced skills in the use of complex methods of OT assessment
- The application includes evidence of the required years of UK residency to meet prison vetting standards
Desirable criteria
- The post holder should have a good understanding of the power imbalances inherent in forensic settings and the impact of the restrictions of a prison environment.
- The post holder should have experience assessing complex situations and patients, often with conflicting information that requires analysis.
- Experience of working in a relevant setting, such as a prison, forensic or mental health setting.
- Ability to deal with highly distressing and emotional circumstances or situations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
- Confident IT skills and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Band 6 Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an Occupational Therapist who believes in the power of meaningful occupation to transform lives? Are you an Occupational Therapist with a passion for meaningful, purpose-driven rehabilitation? Do you want to work in a national programme that blends psychology, trauma-informed care and multi-agency partnership to create real change for people with complex needs?
Do you thrive in environments where creativity, resilience, and hope matter every single day?
If you're looking for a role where your skills genuinely change futures -- this is it.
The Hive atHMP Ranby Nottinghamshire , is part of the NHS England Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway , your work becomes part of something bigger -- improving wellbeing, reducing reoffending, and creating safer communities you won't just be supporting daily living skills -- you'll be shaping identity, purpose and possibility for men with complex trauma histories, personality difficulties and long or indeterminate sentences.
You'll be part of a nationally recognized Outstanding-rated NHS Trust and a psychologically informed service that is changing the landscape of rehabilitation and recovery. Working alongside psychologists, creative therapists, prison officers and wider agen
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