Job requirements
Essential
25 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to work autonomously as a lone Occupational Therapist.
- Skills
Ability to prioritise and manage a complex caseload.
- Skills
Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills.
- Skills
Ability to lead occupational therapy interventions.
- Skills
Ability to analyse and manage risk.
- Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skills
Ability to influence practice within multidisciplinary teams.
- Skills
Ability to supervise and support others.
- Skills
Effective organisational and workload management skills.
- Knowledge
Recovery-oriented practice.
- Knowledge
Occupational therapy process and models of practice.
- Knowledge
Mental Health Act and relevant legislation.
- Knowledge
Safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge
Clinical governance principles.
- Knowledge
Risk assessment and risk management processes.
- Knowledge
Occupational performance and functional assessment.
- Experience
Experience working with adults experiencing complex mental health or learning disability needs.
- Experience
Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload.
- Experience
Experience of delivering occupational therapy assessment and intervention
- Experience
Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience
Experience contributing to risk assessment and risk management.
- Qualifications
Occupational Therapy degree or equivalent
- Qualifications
HCPC registration
- Qualifications
Documented evidence of professional development
- Qualifications
Practice Educator qualification or willingness to undertake.
Desirable
13 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Experience leading service developments
- Skills
Experience delivering training.
- Skills
Experience using outcome measures within forensic services.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of forensic pathways.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of offending behaviour frameworks.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of psychologically informed environments.
- Knowledge
Understanding of trauma-informed practice.
- Experience
Experience within forensic services
- Experience
Experience within rehabilitation services
- Experience
Experience supervising staff or students.
- Experience
Experience undertaking audit or service improvement projects.
- Qualifications
Training in forensic risk assessment.
- Qualifications
Postgraduate training relevant to forensic mental health.
Job overview
The Occupational Therapist will provide the occupational therapy service to Danescourt, a six-bed community forensic step-down unit supporting individuals transitioning from secure forensic settings towards greater community independence.
The post holder will function as the sole Occupational Therapist within the unit, holding responsibility for the delivery, development and evaluation of the occupational therapy pathway for service users with complex mental health needs, offending histories, forensic risks and significant occupational functioning difficulties.
The role plays a key part within the wider RDaSH Learning disability and forensic directorate, supporting recovery, rehabilitation, risk reduction and successful community reintegration.
The post holder will work autonomously, providing specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions whilst contributing to multidisciplinary decision-making regarding recovery progression, leave, transitions, discharge planning and community risk management.
Professional leadership, support and supervision will be provided by the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist for the Forensic Directorate.
Main duties of the job
The Occupational Therapist will:
- Hold responsibility for all occupational therapy provision within Danes Court.
- Manage a specialist caseload of forensic service users.
- Deliver comprehensive occupational assessments and intervention programmes.
- Lead on occupational formulation, recovery planning and discharge pathways
- Contribute to forensic risk assessment and management.
- Support service users progressing from inpatient secure services into community placements.
- Provide specialist occupational therapy advice across the MDT.
- Contribute to service improvement and pathway development across forensic services.
- Supervise occupational therapy support staff, apprentices and students where appropriate.
- Participate in directorate-wide occupational therapy initiatives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regrading this job role.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
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.
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This advert is for Occupational Therapist with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, England. It is listed as a Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Oct 2026.
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