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Occupational Therapist- Band 6

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust -
Bury St. Edmunds

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£39,959 - £48,117 a year
12 days ago

Qualifications

Management

Full job description

Occupational Therapist- Band 6

Band 6

Main area

Mental Health

Grade

Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

Job ref

246-WSU7981106-A

Site

Wedgwood House Bury St Edmunds

Town

Bury St Edmunds

Salary

£39,959 - £48,117 gross per annum/pro rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

14/07/2026 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 OT into the inpatient mental health wards in West Suffolk. It is an exciting time for the team as it is now led by an AHP team lead and coming together as one team across adult and older adult wards. The AHP team has Physio, OT, OT assistants (OTA’s), activity workers, a complementary therapist, and a fitness instructor. In this role, you would be working closely with a band 5 OT and OTA’s to provide OT assessment and interventions on the adult acute wards.

There is access to a gym, ADL kitchen, and an established therapeutic garden on site. The garden is highly valued by service users, staff and visitors at wedgwood house, so the successful applicant would be expected to facilitate therapeutic garden groups and oversee the garden’s ongoing success. An opportunity for training around this area could be consider if required.

In this role there is opportunity to offer a holistic approach, issuing equipment, discharge planning, facilitating groups, liaising with family and carers and facilitating home assessments. The ward MDT consists of nurses, psychology, psychiatrists, and peer support workers. This is a dedicated OT role with the opportunity to be creative when planning interventions. If supporting recovery during an acute mental health admission is something you are interested in, please apply for this post.

Main duties of the job

As Occupational Therapist you will be responsible for:

Assessment of Activities of Daily Living

Report writing

Occupational Formulation

Planning and carrying out interventions

Contributing to care planning and risk assessment

Oversee the process and implementation of service user meal preparation

Group facilitation

Promoting recovery approach within the wider MDT

Support discharge planning, working with community teams

Provide outreach visits where indicated as part of the discharge process

Helping to oversee the ward timetable and also taking a lead in creating individual weekly planners based on level of functioning and goals.

Attending reviews and professionals meetings

Establishing and maintaining links with community services

Supervision of band 5 OT

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the generic job description attached. This is an inpatient adult mental health role and will require supervision and development of a band 5 OT.

**Previous Applicants Need Not Apply**

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Diploma / Degree in OT
Clinical supervisor qualification or willing to work towards.

Desirable criteria

Relevant post graduate training courses

Experience

Essential criteria

Post registration experience in mental health.
Documentary evidence of continuing professional development
Experience of MDT working

Desirable criteria

Supervising students / staff
Previous line management experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of mental health and best practice in OT
Reflective practice

Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

YOUR APPLICATION

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your "junk" mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your " junk" inbox.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post may be 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.

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.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Anwen Rees

Job title

AHP Team Leader

Email address

[email protected]

Additional information

Louise Jordan

[email protected]

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