Central London Community Health Trust

Specialist Vocational Rehabilitation Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 13 July 2025

Job summary

Are you wanting a new, innovative and incredibly exciting role providing vocational rehabilitation occupational therapy across community health services and primary care.

This fixed term contract until March 31st 2026 is based on the original RCOT pilot, working with primary care to support individuals with common musculo-skeletal and mental health conditions to return to and prevent time away from work.

We are looking for an experienced occupational therapist to work 0.8wte alongside GP practices to provide vocational rehabilitation advice and signposting, assessment and intervention to support individuals to return to or maintain their work role; and advice and signposting for those wishing to return to employment.

Main duties of the job

To work at an advanced level within the four pillars of advanced clinical practice: Clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research.
To take responsibility for developing and shaping the role to meet the needs of the local population in consultation with the PCN leads
To autonomously utilise advanced clinical practice knowledge and skills to provide specialist vocational assessment and rehabilitation for patients with common mental health disorders and musculo-skeletal problems and occupational therapy assessment and intervention to the Primary Care Network (PCN) agreed population.
To evidence high levels of problem solving, clinical reasoning and exercise independence of judgement to assess treat and manage own caseload of vocational rehab within the PCN.
To develop processes to optimise service flow, outcome measurement and present data on the developing role within the PCN.
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient -facing role, using their expert knowledge of the impact of physical, social, psychological, and environmental and mental health issues on functional independence and vocation impacting an individual's ability to maintain work, and independence

Find out more information about working and living in South West London here - https://clch.nhs.uk/job/working-clch/clch-southwestlondon#!/select_sector

About us

Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here:https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Date posted

27 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£59,490 to £66,239 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

8 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

824-SOUTH-7283666

Job locations

Merton Civic Centre

London Rd

Morden

SM4 5DX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree-level professional qualification in Occupational therapy
HCPC registration
High level post-graduate courses in relevant clinical and non-clinical areas
Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience

Desirable

Membership of Vocational Rehabilitation Association (VRA)
Advanced clinical practice MSc

Experience

Essential

Broad clinical experience of undertaking vocational rehabilitation assessments and intervention.
Experience of working with people with common mental health disorders and musculoskeletal problems.
MDT working
Development in training staff
Quality Improvement project experience
Service development experience
Project management experience
Working with people from a variety of cultural and economic backgrounds.
Data and reporting experience (e.g. KPIs)

Desirable

Experience within physical health and mental health settings.
Previous clinical specialist experience in vocational rehabilitation/ community occupational therapy
Experience of working within primary care
Previous experience of establishing and developing services
Experience of working with service commissioners
Demand and capacity management

Skills

Essential

Advanced level of clinical skills in field of vocational rehabilitation occupational therapy.
Clear, concise verbal and written reporting skills. IM&T skills, e.g. able to use Word, Excel; access information from database

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree-level professional qualification in Occupational therapy
HCPC registration
High level post-graduate courses in relevant clinical and non-clinical areas
Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience

Desirable

Membership of Vocational Rehabilitation Association (VRA)
Advanced clinical practice MSc

Experience

Essential

Broad clinical experience of undertaking vocational rehabilitation assessments and intervention.
Experience of working with people with common mental health disorders and musculoskeletal problems.
MDT working
Development in training staff
Quality Improvement project experience
Service development experience
Project management experience
Working with people from a variety of cultural and economic backgrounds.
Data and reporting experience (e.g. KPIs)

Desirable

Experience within physical health and mental health settings.
Previous clinical specialist experience in vocational rehabilitation/ community occupational therapy
Experience of working within primary care
Previous experience of establishing and developing services
Experience of working with service commissioners
Demand and capacity management

Skills

Essential

Advanced level of clinical skills in field of vocational rehabilitation occupational therapy.
Clear, concise verbal and written reporting skills. IM&T skills, e.g. able to use Word, Excel; access information from database

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

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

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Merton Civic Centre

London Rd

Morden

SM4 5DX

Employer's website

https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Merton Civic Centre

London Rd

Morden

SM4 5DX

Employer's website

https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)