Job summary
Band 6 Occupational Therapist
Trust: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Location: Warneford Hospital, OX3 7JX Team: City AMHT Oak Team
Pay Rate: £24.61 per hour Hours: 37.5 hours per week Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday, 09:00 17:00
Main duties of the job
About the Role
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the City AMHT Oak Team based at Warneford Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality, patient-centred mental health care within the community. The successful candidate will play a key role in promoting recovery, independence, and wellbeing through evidence-based therapeutic interventions and personalised care planning.
The role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team, supporting service users with complex mental health needs across a variety of settings.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Details
- Date posted: 15 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £24.61 an hour
- Contract: Bank
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: M0042-26-0194
- Job locations: Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Headington, OXFORD, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Band 6 Occupational Therapist
Trust: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Location: Warneford Hospital, OX3 7JX Team: City AMHT Oak Team
Pay Rate: £24.61 per hour Hours: 37.5 hours per week Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday, 09:00 17:00
About the Role
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the City AMHT Oak Team based at Warneford Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality, patient-centred mental health care within the community. The successful candidate will play a key role in promoting recovery, independence, and wellbeing through evidence-based therapeutic interventions and personalised care planning.
The role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team, supporting service users with complex mental health needs across a variety of settings.
Key Responsibilities
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you will:
- Work autonomously as an active member of the multidisciplinary team, undertaking specialist assessments in collaboration with service users and their families/carers.
- Develop, implement, and review person-centred treatment plans that promote safety, recovery, independence, and community inclusion.
- Deliver evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines to support recovery and relapse prevention.
- Build effective therapeutic relationships with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care delivery.
- Monitor and evaluate clinical outcomes, adapting interventions and care plans as appropriate to meet changing needs.
- Support service users in completing clinical outcome measures and contribute to ongoing risk assessment and management.
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation in line with professional and organisational standards.
Essential Requirements
To be considered for this role, applicants must demonstrate:
- Current HCPC registration.
- A recognised qualification in Occupational Therapy.
- Previous experience working within mental health services or community-based settings.
- Sound knowledge of evidence-based mental health interventions and recovery-focused practice.
- Strong understanding of medications, including administration, side effects, and ongoing management.
- Excellent communication, assessment, and clinical reasoning skills.
All applicants for qualified roles will also be required to provide evidence of:
- Relevant professional qualifications.
- Current registration with the appropriate professional body.
Why Join NHS Professionals?
By joining NHS Professionals, you will become part of a flexible and supportive workforce committed to delivering outstanding patient care across the NHS.
Benefits Include:
- Weekly pay for greater financial flexibility
- Priority access to shifts and placements over agency staff
- Flexible working opportunities to support work-life balance
- Access to training and continuing professional development through the Trust and NHSP Academy
- Blue Light Card membership with access to nationwide discounts
- 24/7 support from a dedicated NHSP team
- Opportunities to broaden your clinical experience across a range of services and settings
- Access to member recognition schemes, webinars, events, and exclusive giveaways
About NHS Professionals
NHS Professionals is the NHSs staff bank provider, owned by the Department of Health and Social Care. Working in partnership with NHS Trusts across England, NHS Professionals provides flexible staffing solutions that offer healthcare professionals greater choice, flexibility, and career development opportunities.
Join today and take the next step in your Occupational Therapy career with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
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