Occupational Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Surrey and Borders is looking for an Occupational Therapist who delivers high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments, interventions and consultations to enable people who access services to reach their full potential.

Location: Berkeley House, 11-13 Ockford Road, Godalming, GU7 1QU

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9am to 17pm

Main duties of the job

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, co-ordinated CPD programme including a robust supervision structure, care group meetings, Trust wide and core competence training and an annual conference. Staff is valued for their expertise in occupationally focussed interventions and specialist group therapy.

This post is suitable if you have had previous experience of working in mental health, you want to consolidate your knowledge of occupational therapy and be involved in delivering high quality, evidence based, outcome measured occupational therapy interventions. This post also gives you an opportunity to develop skills in care coordinating service users with an occupational therapy focus and being part of the assessment team.

If you are creative, committed to lifelong learning, good at using your initiative and are committed to providing a high-quality occupational therapy with recovery on your agenda, then apply today.

The candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Occupational Therapy Professional Qualification
  • HCPC Registration

Desirable

  • Completion of a Fieldwork Educators’ course

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant Clinical Experience
  • Experience of using relevant occupational therapy assessment and implementing interventions
  • Experience in applying knowledge of the impact of health and disability on occupational performance, participation and identity
  • Experience of using multiple occupational frames of reference and approaches

Desirable

  • Experience of contributing to service development/project work
  • Experience as a supervisor
  • Experience of group facilitation
  • Experience working with the elderly

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: 8 October 2026

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