Senior Occupational Therapist (Rotational)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a rotational Senior Occupational Therapist role within Newham, offering experience across various mental health services including acute inpatient, community adult, home treatment, diagnostic memory, and older adult community teams. Rotations are 9 months long, focusing on service users' recovery and social inclusion through individual and group work. The role emphasizes developing sound clinical reasoning and specialist skills, drawing on both physical and mental health training. The Trust supports professional development through supervision, educational sessions, and leadership training.
Essential criteria
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy
- Experience of CPD and role development activities
Desirable criteria
- Practice Placement Educator Training
- Experience in clinical mental health setting and/or demonstrable experience highly related to the clinical field.
- Evidence of Service Development activities.
- Experience of working as part of a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of managing own caseload
- Experience of individual and group work
- Experience of staff/student supervision
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of how mental health difficulties impact upon occupational functioning and performance.
- Knowledge of current National legislation, policies and guidelines relevant to adult community mental health and their application.
- Occupational and vocational assessment skills
- Specialist clinical skills to carry out OT interventions: therapeutic and activity based interventions; remedial training and cognitive behavioral interventions and psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions
- Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of OT interventions including knowledge of outcome measures.
- Ability to manage a complex clinical caseload
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment
- Ability to communicate difficult information
- Ability to undertake supervision
- Ability to assess and manage verbal aggression and risk of physical aggression in inpatient and community settings, reducing risks to those involved.
- Ability to plan and work with statutory and non-statutory services around clinical issues oWord-processing/IT skills
- Good organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to maintain the profile of OT within a MDT and the organisation
- Ability to plan, prioritise and coordinate clinical service provision.
- Ability to provide training and presentations
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy
- Experience of CPD and role development activities
- Practice Placement Educator Training
- Experience in clinical mental health setting and/or demonstrable experience highly related to the clinical field.
- Evidence of Service Development activities.
- Experience of working as part of a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of managing own caseload
- Experience of individual and group work
- Experience of staff/student supervision
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of how mental health difficulties impact upon occupational functioning and performance.
- Knowledge of current National legislation, policies and guidelines relevant to adult community mental health and their application.
- Occupational and vocational assessment skills
- Specialist clinical skills to carry out OT interventions: therapeutic and activity based interventions; remedial training and cognitive behavioral interventions and psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions
- Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of OT interventions including knowledge of outcome measures.
- Ability to manage a complex clinical caseload
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment
- Ability to communicate difficult information
- Ability to undertake supervision
- Ability to assess and manage verbal aggression and risk of physical aggression in inpatient and community settings, reducing risks to those involved.
- Ability to plan and work with statutory and non-statutory services around clinical issues oWord-processing/IT skills
- Good organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to maintain the profile of OT within a MDT and the organisation
- Ability to plan, prioritise and coordinate clinical service provision.
- Ability to provide training and presentations
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 13d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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East London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist (Rotational)
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Rotational Occupational Therapist Newham
Due to the promotion of one of our therapists, we have an opportunity to join our popular Band 6 rotation within Newham! This rotation gives experience across a range of services and currently includes Acute inpatient mental health (triage and treatment wards), Community adult mental health services , Home treatment team (HTT), Diagnostic memory services and Older Adult community team. Rotations are 9 months in duration.
Rotations might be further expanded and changed to reflect the needs of our community, the development needs of our therapists and our service needs.
The development of all our Occupational Therapists are important to us. You will have access to peer and professional supervision, monthly educational sessions, CPD-sessions, quality improvement training and early leadership development. We value and celebrate diversity and are interested in any unique skills and life experiences you could bring to the role!
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to be part of the Senior Occupational Therapy rotation, providing meaningful Occupational Therapy (OT) input across Adult and Older Adult Mental Health services in Newham.
As a rotational therapist, the
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