Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 22 February 2026

Job summary

We're offering an exciting opportunity to be part of our redesigned psychosis service, delivering evidence-based pathways and support for Greenwich residents. This role is all about making a real difference--helping individuals regain independence and improve their quality of life through interventions that boost daily living, social engagement, and vocational skills. The role will involve working as an occupational therapist, within our multi-disciplinary team, alongside doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, employment workers and our admin team. The successful applicant will be working alongside our senior Occupational Therapist to support and further develop core interventions for our service users.

Applications are welcomed from newly qualified occupational therapists with an interest in mental health and community working. Although mental health experience may be beneficial, it is not essential. CPD for Band 5 occupational therapy staff includes Statutory Induction, Preceptorship programme, Band 5 support group and Occupational Therapy specific training days. There is an active CPD programme which includes regular professional supervision and appraisals and dedicated CPD time.

The West Locality Mental Health Team operates from its main base in Charlton which serves an identified catchment area within Blackheath, Eltham, Greenwich and Woolwich. Our centre is staffed from 9am until 5pm Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

You will work with specific OT cases providing a high standard of service user focused assessments and interventions around occupational roles.

In applying occupational therapy models you will work from an evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and be creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. You will also contribute to a forward thinking group programme and lead on implementing particular groups.

You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as working with a range of other agencies. The Oxleas Occupational Therapy Service is committed to the continuing professional development (CPD) of its staff. A well-developed supervision structure, CPD activities, and a variety of training opportunities underpin this.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

Date posted

02 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£35,763 to £43,466 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-7771633-CMH

Job locations

Greenwich West Locality

68 The Heights

Charlton

SE7 8JH

Job description

Job responsibilities

To undertake occupational therapy assessments for referrals to the service, addressing occupational performance strengths and needs in relation to service user goals.
To work with a designated caseload of service users to identify goals of OT care plans ensuring compatibility with the overall care plan.
To carry out clinical practice in groups or with individuals using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals, enabling the service user in areas of self -maintenance, productivity and leisure.
To carry out clinical practice in relation to best available evidence.
To promote a recovery approach with service users and frame clinical work within this context.
To monitor and evaluate treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention.
To implement risk management plans in accordance with Trust guidelines and completed risk assessments.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To undertake occupational therapy assessments for referrals to the service, addressing occupational performance strengths and needs in relation to service user goals.
To work with a designated caseload of service users to identify goals of OT care plans ensuring compatibility with the overall care plan.
To carry out clinical practice in groups or with individuals using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals, enabling the service user in areas of self -maintenance, productivity and leisure.
To carry out clinical practice in relation to best available evidence.
To promote a recovery approach with service users and frame clinical work within this context.
To monitor and evaluate treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention.
To implement risk management plans in accordance with Trust guidelines and completed risk assessments.

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

Are you registered with HCPC ?
Do you hold a relevant degree or graduate diploma as required by person specification ?

Experience

Essential

Application of the OT process
Use of functional assessment and activity analysis

Skills

Essential

Some knowledge and application of current best practise in OT
Group work skills

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

Are you registered with HCPC ?
Do you hold a relevant degree or graduate diploma as required by person specification ?

Experience

Essential

Application of the OT process
Use of functional assessment and activity analysis

Skills

Essential

Some knowledge and application of current best practise in OT
Group work skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenwich West Locality

68 The Heights

Charlton

SE7 8JH

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenwich West Locality

68 The Heights

Charlton

SE7 8JH

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)