Job summary
Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health

Are you ready to lead and inspire?
Join us as a Lead Occupational Therapist in Adult Mental Health and take on an exciting role that combines leadership, clinical expertise, and transformative work.

Why This Role?

• Leadership & Governance: Provide clinical and leadership oversight and support to our adult communities' occupational therapists.
• Clinical Excellence: Retain a clinical role, ensuring hands-on involvement and impact.
• Flexible Working: Operate across the Trust, with responsibilities in Mid Surrey and Surrey Downs.
• Professional Development: Benefit from a robust CPD program and development opportunities.
• Innovative Practices: Utilize the Model of Human Occupation for assessments and interventions, offering both individual and group work.

Be Part of a Dynamic Team

• Collaborative Environment: Monthly leadership team meetings to drive strategic initiatives.
• Supportive Network: Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to mental health transformation

The position provides leadership across the adult communities and based at Community Mental Health Recovery Services in Mid Surrey . Based in 18 Mole Business Park, Leatherhead, the postholder will be expected to work flexibly within all the Communities services with travel to Elmbridge and across Mole Valley as need arises.

If you're passionate about mental health and ready to lead, apply now and be a part of our mission to transform lives!!

Main duties of the job
Job Overview

• 1. To provide compassionate and effective leadership to the occupational therapists within the service/locality/sector.
• 2. To contribute to the overall leadership of the service/locality/sector.
• 3. To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
• 4. To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporter/family members, stakeholders and agencies.
• 5. To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.
• 6. To ensure the delivery occupational therapy student placements.
• 7. To lead on service development and audits both within individual services and the wider occupational therapy service.
• 8. To be an active member of the overall occupational therapy leadership team.
• 9. To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.

About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

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.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Details
Date posted
01 September 2026

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 7

Salary
£51,657 to £58,785 a year

(Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time,

Part-time

Reference number
325-8221820-COMM

Job locations
Based in Leatherhead with travel across Mole Valley and Elmbridge

18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road

Leatherhead, Surrey

KT22 7AD

United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person Specification
Qualifications, skills and experinence
Essential

• oOccupational Therapy professional qualification
• oExtensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with people who have complex needs
• oExtensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
• oHighly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
• oExperience of contributing to service development/project work
• oExperience of providing supervision
• oExperience of supporting students on placement
• oExperience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust
• oDemonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills

Desirable

• oIn depth knowledge of group therapy and experience of facilitating groups

Qulaifications Skills and Experience
Essential

• HCPC registration

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).

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address
Based in Leatherhead with travel across Mole Valley and Elmbridge

18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Road

Leatherhead, Surrey

KT22 7AD

United Kingdom

Employer's website
https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy

Heather Tucker

heather.tucker@sabp.nhs.uk

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