Fixed Term: 2 Years | Full-Time: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Springfield Hospital (covering all sites)
Are you a passionate and experienced occupational therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Join our new dynamic team as a clinical specialist OT and contribute to transforming the quality of care for individuals with mental health needs, learning disabilities, and autism in acute inpatient settings.
This exciting role is part of the
Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme (MHLDA IQTP), a national initiative dedicated to improving outcomes and experiences for service users and their families. Learn more about the programme here.
About The Role
As an OT, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to identified clients .
This Includes
- Leading the implementation of specialist OT interventions across inpatient services.
- Supporting service users with complex needs, particularly those with learning disabilities and neurodiversity.
- Driving research, quality improvement initiatives, and innovative care approaches.
- Acting as a role model, supervisor, and mentor for less experienced staff within the MDT.
You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team and fostering collaborative relationships within the Trust and beyond, ensuring inclusivity, resilience, and hope in care delivery.
What We’re Looking For - A Registered Occupational Therapist with extensive experience of working in Mental Health Services who;
- Has worked at a senior level to lead and embed positive clinical practice
- Has also developed or started to develop, their clinical expertise, to expand to learning disability, autism and/or neurodiversity
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Miles Job title: Head of Therapies Email address:
[email protected]Mandy Billingham, Deputy Head of Therapies
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