Senior Occupational Therapist
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Braford, BD9 6DPView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 November 2026
13 days leftJob description
Senior Occupational Therapist - Band 6 Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to develop your leadership skills within an acute inpatie...
- Deliver high-quality occupational therapy assessments, interventions and care plans for patients within an acute mental health inpatient setting.
- Manage and prioritise a caseload, providing person-centred, recovery-focused support.
- Lead and support the ward-based Occupational Therapy team, providing clinical leadership and guidance to colleagues.
- Develop and facilitate individual and group therapeutic activities to promote recovery, independence and social inclusion.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to assess needs, plan treatment and support discharge planning.
- Complete specialist occupational assessments and provide recommendations to meet patients' functional and environmental needs.
- Support service users in developing skills for daily living, self-care, leisure and community participation.
- Supervise, mentor and support junior staff, assistant practitioners and students.
- Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives and the delivery of innovative practice.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure practice complies with professional standards, legislation and Trust policies.
- Support the Team Manager with service delivery, staff coordination and operational duties as required
- Work across the Adult Mental Health Acute Care Service sites when required.
Closing Date: 2nd November 2026
Shortlisting Date: 3rd & 4th November 2026
Interview Date: TBC
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefitsincluding :
Increase mileage rates for >4500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plusmany more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported toparticipatein training and toidentifyand implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date ifa sufficient number ofapplications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible.
Qualifications
Essential: - Registration with HCPC; - Degree in Occupational Therapy
Desirable: - Qualification in specific OT assessments such as AMPS
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience including experience of risk assessment, assessing patients and creating/implementing high quality treatment and care plans.
- Worked as named professional to client group.
- Experience of developing and facilitating groupwork.
- Experience of supervising staff and students.
Desirable: - Involvement in innovative service development.; - Experience of managing staff.
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
19 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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