Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Band 7

Main area Offender Healthcare Grade Band 7 Contract Secondment: 12 months Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  
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Site HMP Wandsworth Town Wandsworth Salary £58,133 - £65,261 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 25/09/2026 23:59

As part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) you will provide specialist assessment and intervention to offenders in prison. You will promote active engagement in meaningful occupations and facilitate the skills development and independence of patients. The postholder will work in collaboration with other healthcare professionals in prison in contributing to the development and delivery of safe, effective care, while also holding care co-ordination responsibility for a clinical caseload.

• Manage a complex clinical caseload
• Work as a member of the multi-professional team and proactively support the NHSE&I safe staffing initiative
• Lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice
• Provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to self- care, work and leisure
• Lead on service development
• Lead and participate in research/audit/quality improvement activities
• Supervise the work of junior staff including OT students on clinical placement

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans
• Provide specialist OT advice to the multi-professional team
• Work independently without direct supervision
• Be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment and interventions for the service user group
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service
• Work within the social inclusion and recovery agenda.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information.

• 2 years experience working in Forensics
• Extensive post registration experience as a Clinical Occupational Therapist
• Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting social inclusion
• Previous experience working in Prisons

• Diploma/ BSc or Masters in Occupational Therapy
• UK HCPC registration

• Use and understanding of the MOHO
• Specialist knowledge and application of OT…