# Occupational Therapist – Mental Health Adult Inpatient

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £36,943 - £44,900 per annum Inc HCA
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Full time
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-09T08:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30T15:51:59.278Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8395585
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8395585?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The friendly Occupational Therapy team in Newham are inviting a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join the Inpatient Occupational Therapy Mental Health Team

This is an ideal opportunity for your first Band 5 role, and we are inviting passionate final year students to apply as well. (There is the option of starting as a Band 4 whilst awaiting HCPC registration.)

The Occupational Therapist is part of the established multi-disciplinary team and the role is to undertake specific Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions of referred individuals, the emphasis is on supporting the person to achieve their goals in self-care, productivity and leisure to continue to live at home; group work is encouraged; another aspect of the role is generic assessment and joint working with other team members.

Please contact us for any further discussions, visits and to answer any questions you might have.

### Main duties of the job

- To provide Occupational Therapy specific assessments and intervention/treatments to a designated caseload of inpatient adult service users with mental health issues and support needs via a range of individual and or group treatments.
- To develop and maintain links with the Inpatient and Community services, relevant statutory and non-statutory agencies.
- To support students on practice education placements when required
- To contribute to the planning and evaluation of Inpatient OT services

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- - Physical skills required to facilitate a wide range of activities both on a one-to-one and group basis, including using equipment as required
- - Mental and emotional effort required to undertake intense concentration required for clinical consultations and interventions on both a one-to-one and group basis
- - Mental and emotional effort required to undertake intense concentration for holistic formulations, report writing, etc.

### Education

**Essential**

- - Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- - HCPC Registration

**Desirable**

- - Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic alliances to be developed and maintained with clients who have complex needs
- - Analytical & clinical reasoning skills to assess clients’ complex needs (including risk assessment) & complete a holistic formulation to guide interventions with significant support & supervision
- - Ability to apply specialist skills in individual and group based OT assessments, interventions and evaluations
- - Ability to manage frequent highly distressing clinical interactions with client’s and their carers
- - Good organisational and time management skills
- - Ability to liaise with other services around clinical issues

## Documents

- [b5 ot jd/ps (pdf, 392.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10726264)
- [b5 ot jd/ps (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10726263)
- [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090)
- [elft staff benefits (pdf, 653.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3107)
- [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844)
- [elft staff benefits leaflet new (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3106)

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