# Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Reachout

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Birmingham
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T09:22:03.213Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Solihull_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8089002
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8089002?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The CMHT Forensic Interface Team is a unique ad exciting pilot project, integrated within the  the East CMHT Hub and dedicated to supporting service users retuning from Secure Care facilities who require ongoing community based support and service users within existing CMHT teams, who would benefit from intensive and specialist support. The Forensic Interface MDT team will work independently but alongside the wider CMHT staff team, and will include input from Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychologist, community based nurses and support staff with access to others community resources and specialists as needed.

The successful candidates will need an appreciation of the challenges that many service users face when transitioning from secure care back into the community and those living in the community that require more intensive support and engagement strategies. The core task, from an OT prospective would be to assess the impact that mental illness, trauma, learning disabilities or autism and long-term institutionalisation have on functioning and to develop plans, in collaboration with the MDT and service users, to address to these.

### Main duties of the job

- Provide a professional consultative role within an MDT.
- Screen new referrals to team as a member of the MDT
- Use professional specific practice models and assessments to                             formulate collaborative goals and clinical outcomes for our service                 users.
- Deliver group and individual intervention in the community to                           promote life skills and support transition.
- Liaise with care providers to ensure treatment plans are maintained               to support community living.
- Adhere to clinical, operational and procedural policies and processes.
- Engage in service development.
- Support staff well-being.
- Consult with community agencies to develop community facing                        pathways and opportunities for our service users.
- Engage our experts by experience in co-production.
- Maintain effective record keeping and outcome/ activity data.
- Care coordination or key practitioner role with a small caseload of                  service users

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant clinical experience within a mental health setting, with different client groups
- Application demonstrates an understanding of the needs of service users returning from secure care and of service users with limited engagement in their care.
- Application shows an understanding of community based work and ability to manage risk effectively

**Desirable**

- Experience of forensic mental health settings or service users presenting with complex needs
- Experience of working with service users with limited or poor engagement and skills in re-motivation strategies
- Application demonstrates a ability to formulate care based on collaborative working
- Application is able to identify ways in which community engagement is a priority and expereince of supporting service users in the community

### qualifications and registration

**Essential**

- Qualified Occupational Therapist with evidence of full HCPC Registration

**Desirable**

- Evidence of qualifications, formal training or supervised training in an area of clinical or supervision/management skills above introductory level

## Documents

- [applicant guide (pdf, 313.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1260)
- [job description (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10387142)
- [equality statement (pdf, 572.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2416)
- [person specification (pdf, 40.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10387141)
- [everyday behaviours guide (pdf, 159.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2415)
- [information for applicants (pdf, 431.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1709)

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