Occupational Therapist

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 14 December 2025

Exciting Opportunity:
Occupational Therapist - Victoria Ward, Guildford, Surrey

We're delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our compassionate and skilled team on Victoria Ward
, an inpatient unit supporting older adults through acute mental health crises. Based in Guildford, Surrey
, Victoria Ward provides a safe, therapeutic environment where individuals receive comprehensive assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation tailored to their needs.

As a valued member of our multi-disciplinary team
, occupational therapy plays a central role in facilitating recovery. This post offers the opportunity to deliver impactful, person-centred interventions while also providing supervision to our activity coordinators and occupational therapy apprentice
.

What We Offer:

• A robust supervision structure to support your professional growth
• Access to coordinated CPD programmes and development opportunities
• Trust-wide and core competence training
• Participation in our annual Allied Health Professionals conference

Join us in shaping the future of older adult mental health care through meaningful occupation
, innovative practice
, and a strong commitment to recovery-focused care
.

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:

• To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
• To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
• To contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
• To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, support workers and activities coordinators (as appropriate)
• To provide occupational therapy student placements.
• To contribute to service development and audits.
• To take on the role of lead professional as appropriate.

This exciting opportunity is offered within our community mental health service and will be based primarily within Victoria Ward

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

• HCPC registration
• Occupational Therapy professional qualification
• Completion of a Fieldwork Educators' course

• Experience of using relevant occupational therapy assessment and implementing interventions
• Evidence of an interest and skills in specialist area
• Mental health experience
• Experience of contributing to service development/project work
• Experience as a supervisor
  
  Experience of group facilitation
• Experience of supporting students on placement

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.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£40,617 to £48,778 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.