South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Occupational Therapist
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Are you looking for your first Band 6 post, or have transferable skills but no community experience? Do you want to use OT core skills regularly in your work? Then do consider coming to work with us in Croydon Community Mental Health services.
The Croydon Neighbourhood Teams cover working age adults aged 18-65 and a mixture of mental health conditions needing secondary care level community support.
The Occupational Therapist Role
The Occupational Therapist role is a core skills-based role. It carries a caseload of clients to which they provide OT assessment and bespoke OT therapeutic individual and group interventions. The OT works alongside Care Co-ordinators and other MDT practitioners to support needs led care planning (using Dialogue), and providing a comprehensive range of interventions to support recovery.
Each team has one OT but there is plenty of peer support and supervision to allow for career progression, skills development and professional support across the OT service.
The OTs also link with inpatient and HTT OT colleagues and liaise with external providers in the voluntary and social care sector to ensure smooth transition of service users into and out of the Community Service.
There is an established SLaM Croydon Community OT network and regular monthly Peer Group. OT supervision will also be provided to support the development of these roles. There is also the opportunity to link in with the wider OT network within SLaM and all it has to offer including regular training and CPD.
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Responsibilities
- To provide Occupational Therapy specialist assessments and interventions to a caseload of service users through group and individual interventions.
- These need to be appropriate to the Service Users identified needs and risks.
- Service users may have a wide range of intervention needs including mental health, physical health, sensory and environmental and occupational needs.
Requirements
- Applicants need to have sound clinical skills and good organisational skills.
- To be able to prioritise and work with service users in both short and longer term timescales.
- They need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to work effectively in a Multidisciplinary team and also engage with family and carers who are supporting the Service user.
- The teams are busy so applicants need to demonstrate good clinical rational and decision making to ensure throughput and safe discharges from the OT caseload.
Join Us During an Exciting Period of Change
Croydon's Community Mental Health Services are entering an exciting new phase of development with the introduction of 5 Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams from September 2026. These services will deliver integrated, multidisciplinary and community-focused care, bringing together a range of professionals and partner organisations to improve access, experience and outcomes for local people. The successful candidate will play an important role in delivering this new model of care whilst benefiting from opportunities for service development and collaborative working across the wider system.
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The Five Neighbourhood teams now include support workers, Individual Placement Support workers and Psychology Associate roles in addition to Medical, and Nursing roles. Peer support workers are being introduced into the teams.
All Neighbourhood teams are based at Jeanette Wallace House in Croydon which is easily accessed by public transport.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ruth Looby
- Job title: Croydon Community Specialist Band 7 OT
- Email address: ruth.looby@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07596892234
Additional Contact:
- Name: Liz Pine
- Job title: Croydon Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address: elizabeth.pine@slam.nhs.uk
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