Occupational Therapist

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist keen to take on the challenge of further developing your clinical and leadership skills? Have you ever considered working in mental health? If so this job is for you-

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Specialist team to further develop this post within our service. We hope you will relish the opportunity to enhance and shape our service for the future through using your skills and experience to meet the needs of people in Fife.

Our dedicated team of Occupational Therapists and Clinical Support Workers work with the people of Fife aged under 65 years who are experiencing mental health problems. The post will oversee delivery of Occupational Therapy within both community and in-patient settings.

We are keen to hear from both existing Band 5 Occupational Therapists, and Occupational Therapists looking to make the first step in their career, who possess the skills, knowledge, and interest to develop professionally and make a positive impact within the field of mental health.

This post will offer you the opportunity to work with a range of patients using effective clinical decision making and evidence based practices to enable patients to achieve their personal outcomes.

We are a service that is forward thinking and dynamic and are always striving to improve our services for our patients and staff. We are currently engaging in a programme of transformational change and development in line with national and local strategy, standards and priorities for Mental Health and Occupational Therapy services. You would be actively involved in this service redesign work and would be able to be part of re-shaping the way Occupational Therapy services are delivered in Fife.

As a service, we recognise that staff are our biggest assets and we value staff, their wellbeing, safety, creativity and innovation. We promote a culture of openness, honesty, transparency and teamworking where everyone is treated with dignity, respect, care and compassion.

This will be a challenging but very rewarding role that will promote your personal development and support your career development. Experience working with people within a mental health setting is not essential, but a desire to work with this client group and knowledge and understanding of their needs is important.

If you would like to find out more about the post and opportunities within the service, please contact David Sanders - Team Lead Occupational Therapist on 01383-623623 ext 22148/56232 or david.sanders@nhs.scot.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.