Senior Occupational Therapist Community Mental Health (ARRs PCN): Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

A key feature of our approach has been the development of a care offer delivered by staff from multiple partner organisations within the footprint of a Primary Care Network to deliver what really matters to people who need mental health support in that neighborhood. This emerging model of care is flexible to people’s changing needs, with people ‘stepping up’ and ‘stepping down’ levels of support and intervention according to the complexity of their needs.

Main duties of the job

Establish, build and optimize working relationships within community mental health transformation including the blended Mental Health teams, Primary care networks, secondary care, the voluntary sector and community partners.

Take a lead in the scoping, development and future alignment of the Occupational Therapy (OT) service within Community Mental Health transformation, particularly how to optimize the value of OT, alongside the Borough Lead for OT.

Provide Occupational Therapy input to service users accessing the PCN/Neighborhood Mental Health teams, especially where needs are complex and where multiple factors impacts on occupational performance.

Contribute to case formulations within the PCN/Neighborhood Mental Health team, incorporating experience and knowledge as a dual trained professional in both physical and mental health.

Person Specification

excellent communication skills

Essential

  • well written personal statement

Desirable

  • previous line management responsibilities

application

Essential

  • Qualified Occupational Therapist
  • HCPC
  • Community Mental Health Experience
  • experience of supervising qualified clinical staff
  • experience of supervising multi students per academic year

Desirable

  • providing community clinics / groups
  • responding to complaints and investigations
  • providing stakeholders events
  • presenting at conferences

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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