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Occupational Therapist | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Company: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Band 5 Rotational Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Location: Wirral | Start Date: ASAP

Are you an enthusiastic, passionate, and highly motivated Occupational Therapist eager to make a real difference in mental health care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic Adult Occupational Therapy Team.

This is a rotational post based at Springview Mental Health Unit, Clatterbridge Hospital. You will have the opportunity to rotate across each of the wards at Springview, which include:

• Three acute adult mental health assessment wards
• A ward for people with dementia
• Specialist inpatient eating disorder unit (SEDU)
• A Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

What You’ll Do:

You will be part of a rotation offering diverse opportunities to gain a wide range of experience working with people with many different mental health conditions. Within this team, you’ll play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to service users aged 18 and above who are experiencing acute mental health challenges. Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting holistic assessments and interventions, and supporting with discharge planning.
• Taking on the rewarding challenge of managing a diverse and complex caseload.
• Enhancing the lives of service users through facilitating meaningful therapeutic interventions.

You’ll work closely with our Occupational Therapists, experienced OT Technical Instructors (OTTIS) and our integrated multidisciplinary team (MDT) to ensure a seamless and supportive care experience for every individual.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a friendly, supportive, and well-established MDT.
• Receive dedicated guidance and direction from experienced Occupational Therapists.
• Benefit from ongoing professional development, including:

• Clinical supervision
• Annual appraisals
• Practice placement education
• A wide range of training opportunities
• Regular peer support

• Free access to a fully equipped gym

Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours/week), Monday to Friday

Who We’re Looking For:

• Passionate about mental health and improving lives.
• Adaptable, eager to learn, and ready to thrive in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.

We would welcome applications from reliable, resilient, focused, innovative, and hardworking individuals that are happy to share their skills and ideas but are also able to take direction. This role offers an ideal career development opportunity for new graduates or newly qualified Occupational Therapists or a qualified OT who is looking to widen their expertise in mental health care.

Salaries and Contract:

• Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
• Hours: Full-time
• Location: Bebington, CH63 4JY
• Job type: Permanent
• Posting date: 22 Sept 2026
• Closing date: 22 Oct 2026

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organization and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Oct 2026

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

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