Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Occupational Therapist
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Occupational Therapist Opportunity
Are you an Occupational Therapist who believes in the power of meaningful occupation to transform lives? Are you an Occupational Therapist with a passion for meaningful, purpose‑driven rehabilitation? Do you want to work in a national programme that blends psychology, trauma‑informed care and multi‑agency partnership to create real change for people with complex needs?
Do you thrive in environments where creativity, resilience, and hope matter every single day?
If you’re looking for a role where your skills genuinely change futures — this is it.
The Hive at HMP Ranby Nottinghamshire, is part of the NHS England Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway, your work becomes part of something bigger — improving wellbeing, reducing reoffending, and creating safer communities. You won’t just be supporting daily living skills — you’ll be shaping identity, purpose and possibility for men with complex trauma histories, personality difficulties and long or indeterminate sentences.
You’ll be part of a nationally recognized Outstanding-rated NHS Trust and a psychologically informed service that is changing the landscape of rehabilitation and recovery. Working alongside psychologists, creative therapists, prison officers and wider agencies, you’ll help create a safer, healthier, more hopeful environment for patients — and a stronger, more compassionate society beyond the prison gates.
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Role Description
As an Occupational Therapist you will play a central part in delivering high‑quality, psychologically informed care within The Hive, a specialist Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway service at HMP Ranby. As an autonomous clinician, you will be responsible for assessing the occupational needs of service users with complex personality, trauma‑related, and psychosocial difficulties, and for designing, implementing and evaluating individualised rehabilitation plans that promote independence, purpose, and functional living skills both within custody and in preparation for eventual community reintegration.
Your role will involve conducting comprehensive specialist assessments, analysing complex information, and translating this into meaningful, realistic, and collaboratively agreed treatment goals. You will deliver a wide range of interventions—including structured activities, graded therapeutic groups, and 1:1 sessions—using sound clinical reasoning and evidence‑based OT practice. A key responsibility is to adapt interventions responsively, taking account of fluctuating clinical presentations, motivational barriers, emotional distress, and the unique constraints of a secure environment.
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About NHFT
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
Security Vetting
Please note this post is subject to security vetting. To be considered for this post you will need to have continuously resided in the UK without any breaks for a minimum of 3 years prior to this application and be able to evidence your years of residency. Please note without sufficient evidence your application may not progress.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Fiona Betts
- Job title: Clinical Lead
- Email address: Fiona.Betts2@nhft.nhs.uk
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