Occupational Therapist - Community Mental Health Team

Job overview

Are you an Occupational Therapist with a passion for mental health and recovery-focused practice? Join a supportive community team in Amersham.

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Occupational Therapists are recognised as vital to delivering high-quality mental health care. We invest in strong professional leadership, structured supervision and dedicated CPD to help you grow your clinical expertise. You’ll have access to a Trust-wide OT network, peer forums and development opportunities across community, inpatient and specialist services. We actively support career progression, service innovation and the strengthening of the OT/AHP voice within multidisciplinary teams.

The Chiltern CMHT Adult Mental Health Team is seeking a motivated OT committed to delivering person-centred care for adults with complex mental health needs. You will use occupation-focused assessment and intervention to promote independence, wellbeing, and meaningful daily living.

Working alongside nursing, psychiatry, psychology and social care colleagues, you’ll be supported by experienced clinical leaders while having the autonomy to shape and develop the occupational therapy offer within the team.

Main duties of the job

• Conduct specialist Occupational Therapy assessments in collaboration with service users and their families/carers, and present findings to the team.
• Manage a caseload of clients with complex Occupational Therapy needs, using evidence-based, patient-centred principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions.
• Develop and monitor treatment plans to ensure the safety, well-being, and independence of service users, working closely with partner agencies when necessary.
• Provide specialist support and education to service users and carers regarding various aspects of occupational therapy, including equipment fitting.
• Engage in continuous professional development by participating in practice development initiatives, supervision, reflective practice forums, and maintaining competency through Continuous Personal Development.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to hold HCPC registration in order to be considered for this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Job Description subject to evaluation.