Job overviewWe have an exciting new B7 occupational therapy role in our Forensic team in Surrey! The Forensic Outreach Liaison Service is dedicated to supporting individuals with complex needs who have engaged in offending behaviour, helping them build hopeful, meaningful lives through recovery-focused mental health interventions. If you are passionate about making a real difference, you\''ll find a rewarding opportunity here to foster resilience, promote healing, and support lasting positive change.

As part of our expanding multi-disciplinary therapies team, you will work collaboratively to deliver evidence-based therapies that enable individuals to overcome challenges, manage their mental health, and reintegrate successfully into the community. Your expertise will help empower recovery, reduce reoffending, and enhance wellbeing.

If you believe in recovery as a powerful journey toward transformation and want to be part of a dedicated team that supports positive futures, we want to hear from you.

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, coordinated CPD programme including supervision, care group and trust wide training, core competence training, and annual conferences.

Job responsibilities

To provide compassionate and effective leaderships to junior staff including support staff and therapy assistants

To strengthen and actively contribute to the overall leadership of the service

To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporters/family members, stakeholders, and agencies.

To assess and contribute to the formulation and diagnosis of individuals referred to the Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service.

To provide high quality and evidence-based occupational therapy assessment intervention and consultation to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with occupational therapy and service pathways

To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.

To ensure the delivery of occupational therapy student placements.

To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.

Supporting the team managers and clinical leads in the development and delivery of effective services.

To provide an audit of occupational therapy services within the directorate and to link in with local, regional, and national occupational therapy networks

About usSurrey 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.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

DetailsDate posted: 03 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £50,008 to £56,908 a year incl. 5 % HCAS fringe, pa, pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 325-7368270-SS

Job locations: Unifer House, Unither House, Curfew Bell Rd, Chertsey, KT16 9FG

Job descriptionPlease see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Person SpecificationQualifications

Occupational therapy professional Qualification

A driving license suitable for driving in the United Kingdom

Desirable

Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work

Clinical Supervision training/experience

Leadership training or relevant leadership experience

Experience

Extensive and relevant post qualification experience with people who have complex needs.

Experience of leading clinical practice service development or project work

Extensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches

Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models

Demonstrates evidence of highly effective clinical reasoning skills

Evidence of interest and skills in specialist area

Experience of providing supervision

Experience of supporting students on placement

Experience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust

Disclosure and UK RegistrationThis 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer detailsSurrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Unifer House, Unither House, Curfew Bell Rd, Chertsey, KT16 9FG

Employer''s website: sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us

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