Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Join our AHP Mental Health Inpatient Service at Parklands Hospital, Basingstoke, and develop your career within a supportive and established OT team.

This fixed-term opportunity is ideal for newly qualified Occupational Therapists looking to gain valuable experience, Band 5 OTs seeking progression, or clinicians interested in exploring a new specialty within mental health. We welcome applications from OTs of all backgrounds who are passionate about delivering person-centred, occupation-focused care.

Parklands Hospital is a recovery-focused inpatient service covering Acute, Ministry of Defence, Older Persons Mental Health, and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) services. You will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, supporting individuals on their recovery journey through meaningful therapeutic interventions, assessment, rehabilitation, and discharge planning.

The role offers opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the support of students and colleagues. You will be encouraged to develop specialist skills in mental health practice while receiving guidance from an experienced and supportive team.

If you are committed to placing meaningful occupation at the heart of recovery and would like to experience the rewarding field of mental health OT we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion or to arrange a visit, please contact Joan Co, Inpatient AHP Manager. Further details are available in the Job Description.

Main duties of the job

*To select and apply Occupational Therapy assessments for a designated caseload, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, empowering the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.

*To carry out core assessments and risk assessments for clients newly screened to the team.

*To work with service users to identify Occupational Therapy goals as part of the overall care plan, using specialist mental health and Occupational Therapy assessment tools. Including review of the effectiveness of clinical care provided ensuring that patient safety is maintained and care delivery meets the standards required by the Trust and the Care Quality Commission

*To manage a caseload of service users with complex mental health needs, including evaluating screened patients for interventions and priorities for treatment.

*To plan and implement person centred individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.

*To actively participate in discharge planning, supporting carers and service users to successfully transition home.

*To demonstrate and apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability, provide training, and advise on lifestyles changes and adaptations to the service users social and physical environment.

*To assess the occupational needs of a defined client group and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment programmes.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 28 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 8 months
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-MNH-12532
• Job locations: Parklands Hospital, Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 9RH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).