Eating Disorders Occupational Therapist

Job summary

An excellent opportunity has arisen to come and join our Adult Eating Disorder Service.

We offer high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments, interventions and consultations to enable people who access AEDS and ETT (Adult Eating Disorders outpatients and the Enhanced Treatment Team) services to reach their full potential.

We use Model of Human Occupation to guide all our occupational therapy assessments and interventions. We are particularly focusing on embedding occupational science and neuroscience into our practice.

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to offering extensive, co-ordinated CPD programmes including a robust supervision structure, care group meetings, Trust wide and core competence training and an annual conference.

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.

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.

We will reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Date posted: 12 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £33,677 to £50,387 a year

Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: -CYPS

Job locations: Farnham Road Hospital, Farnham Road Hospital, Guildford, GU2 7LX
, United Kingdom

• HCPC registration
• Occupational Therapy professional qualification

• Fieldwork Educators' Course (Band
  6)

• Experience working with people with mental health and or Learning Disabilities
• Knowledge of occupational frames of reference and approaches
• Knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
• Knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models

• Experience of contributing to service development/project work (Band
  6)
• Experience as a supervisor (Band
  6)
• Experience of group facilitation (Band
  6)
• Experience of supporting students on placement (Band
  6)

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer name: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Farnham Road Hospital, Farnham Road Hospital, Guildford, GU2 7LX
, United Kingdom

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For questions about the job, contact: Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy, Heather Tucker,