Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist Adult Autism Services | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£55,524 - £62,652 pa inc
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sidcup, DA14 6LT
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	13 Oct 2026
Closing date:	12 Nov 2026

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Summary

Join our innovative and passionate Occupational Therapy team and make a real difference in the lives of adults with autism.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to further develop their leadership and specialist clinical skills within a supportive service.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to lead our adult autism services. You will lead the clinical provision of occupational therapy services within the autism acute support team and community autism service. You will be delivering high quality care as part of multi-disciplinary services.

As part of the wider directorate you will have opportunities to link with other occupational therapists with clinical supervision provided from the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist.

· To actively support the Directorate Occupational Therapy Lead in the overall development of the OT service within the ALD Directorate to demonstrate the effectiveness of providing high-quality assessment and intervention to adults with Autism.

· To manage a complex clinical caseload, including positive risk taking and managing high risk/ crisis.

· To be responsible for ensuring clinical provision in the Adult Autism services is evidence based and is compliant with professional guidance.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind

• We’re Fair

• We Listen

• We Care

Key Task and Responsibilities

· To actively support the Directorate Occupational Therapy lead in the overall development of the OT service within the ALD Directorate to demonstrate the effectiveness of providing high-quality assessment and intervention to adults with Autism.

· To manage a complex clinical caseload, including positive risk taking and managing high risk/ crisis.

· To be responsible for ensuring clinical provision in the Adult Autism services is evidence based and is compliant with professional guidance.

· To work as a member of the autism MDT, in partnership with others e.g. service users, carers, and relevant family members, in a variety of settings and alongside the Acute Care/inpatient services and the Community Mental Health Services, to provide person centred assessment, intervention and provide specialist OT advice.

· To contribute to the assessment of adults with suspected Autism Spectrum Disorder, as required.

· To work independently and without direct supervision

· To be an OT specialist and have an indepth knowledge of OT assessment and interventions for adults with autism

· To provide leadership to OT’s working with adults with autism

· To represent Occupational Therapy at a Directorate Level in relevant forums and management meetings

· To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service

· To develop, monitor and evaluate t standards for OT practice within the services.

· To contribute to implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects/audit/research that develop the clinical effectiveness of OT provision for autistic adults, sharing findings and statistical information as required in a timely manner.

· To work closely with other OT clinical specialists across the Trust

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details

This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Oct 2026

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