Senior Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 18 March 2026
Job summary
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Occupational Therapist to join our Intensive Outreach Team, supporting people with complex mental health needs to achieve meaningful recovery within their own homes and local communities. As part of this innovative service, you will deliver person-centred, evidence based occupational therapy interventions that promote independence, wellbeing, and social inclusion.
You will work closely within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, contributing your clinical expertise to holistic care planning and risk management. Based on the assertive outreach model the team work with people who experience psychosis or may have bi-polar disorder who are disengaged from mental health services.
Main duties of the job
You will also become part of a wider community network of Allied Health Professionals, enabling rich professional collaboration, shared learning, and development opportunities across services. In addition, you will have regular access to peer supervision with Occupational Therapists across the directorate, ensuring you are well supported in your practice and ongoing career progression.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Details
Date posted
04 March 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
232-CMT-7768564
Job locations
The Greenfield Centre
Stoke on Trent
ST6 5UD
Employer details
Employer name
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Address
The Greenfield Centre
Stoke on Trent
ST6 5UD
Employer's website
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