Senior Occupational Therapist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Our Physical Health Inpatient Units aim to provide an inclusive rehabilitative service that empowers service users to develop the tools they need to improve their health and wellbeing — enabling them to heal, grow and reclaim their lives.

We are seeking a dynamic senior occupational therapist for a 12 month secondment. The occupational therapist must share our values, demonstrates curiosity, and welcomes challenges at St Mark’s Hospital. You’ll manage a complex caseload, delivering tailored rehabilitation to adults and older adults with multi-pathologies and frailty. Using advanced clinical reasoning, specialist manual skills, and collaborative goal-setting, you’ll help maximise potential, regain independence and transition successfully to the community.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is a compassionate trust, with a commitment to constant improvement within the fast-moving healthcare environment. All staff have the opportunity for training in leadership, service improvement, and personal growth through structured supervision and regular bespoke development opportunities.

If you are looking for a role that will stretch your clinical reasoning, strengthen your leadership skills and give you scope to influence service development in a rewarding environment, this could be your next step.

Flexible working, part-time, and job-share options are available for the right candidate.

To be responsible for a highly complex caseload using an interdisciplinary, patient focused rehabilitative approach.

To provide clinical leadership and specialist advice, through supervision, education of students, Band 5, Multi Therapy Assistants,and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

To identify service developments, needs, contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of the service and have responsibility for defined projects.

To provide highly skilled and specialist assessments of occupational performance, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based client centred intervention maintaining the associated records in compliance with the standards from the College of Occupational Therapy and the Trust.

This post will be based at St Mark’s Hospital Maidenhead. Current working pattern is Monday – Friday. Working patterns are subject to clinical and service demands and are reviewed regularly to ensure these are met.

The post holder may have to provide cross-service clinical and/or workforce support to other Berkshire Healthcare services, as required, in response to service demand or operational pressures. This may include supporting patient care delivery, prioritisation of caseloads, and contributing to workforce coordination to ensure safe and effective service provision.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

The “must haves” for this role:

1. Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy

1. Experience working in a rehabilitation or intermediate care NHS or Social Services setting.

1. Experience supervising junior staff and students

1. Ability to drive with access to car for work purposes

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted, including relevant examples.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Rhys Amos on View phone number on findajob.dwp.gov.uk or email: View email address on findajob.dwp.gov.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Jun 2026

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