Senior Occupational Therapist

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Senior Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 18 March 2026

We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Occupational Therapist to join our Intensive Outreach Team, supporting people with complex mental health needs to achieve meaningful recovery within their own homes and local communities. As part of this innovative service, you will deliver person-centred, evidence based occupational therapy interventions that promote independence, wellbeing, and social inclusion.

You will work closely within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, contributing your clinical expertise to holistic care planning and risk management. Based on the assertive outreach model the team work with people who experience psychosis or may have bi-polar disorder who are disengaged from mental health services.

Main duties of the job

You will also become part of a wider community network of Allied Health Professionals, enabling rich professional collaboration, shared learning, and development opportunities across services. In addition, you will have regular access to peer supervision with Occupational Therapists across the directorate, ensuring you are well supported in your practice and ongoing career progression.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

Job responsibilities

This is an excellent opportunity for an OT who is passionate about mental health, values partnership working, and is committed to delivering highquality community care that truly changes lives.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy.

Experience

• Substantial Post Graduate experience within the role of Occupational Therapist / Mental Health.

Knowledge

• Awareness of national and local policies and how these impact on service provision.

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust