Haringey Community Occupational Therapist – Band 6

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are seeking a motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist who would enjoy working in a small friendly team dedicated to Occupational Therapy (OT) provision for Haringey Community Mental Health Services. We encourage you to apply if you are keen to use your core OT skills, to champion high quality and innovative OT interventions across a number of community mental health teams, and to develop leadership skills within the service and across the Trust through training, individual and peer supervision opportunities. This role offers the chance to work creatively, offering strengths-focused individual and group interventions that empower and bring lasting change for our clients, in their homes and the local vibrant community of Haringey. Please apply or call for futher information, if you are interested.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold a case load and work as an Occupational Therapist across Haringey adult community mental health services, to provideassessment, plan and implement interventions, evaluate treatment and ensure safe discharge. They will offer time limited interventions with clear goals, using a recovery-focused approach that enhances daily living skills and supports engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities, for service users across the community. The occupational therapist will be deputy to the Lead and will mentor the Band 5 OT, whilst working closely with the supporting clinical team and offering clinical supervision to other junior staff in the MDT, including Employment Support.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc or PGDip/MSc Occupational Therapy

Desirable

  • Additional qualification in mental health

Experience/work history

Essential

  • 1 year post-graduate experience as Band 5 OT

Desirable

  • Experience of working within mental health setting

Supervising/mentoring

Essential

  • Experience of supervising/mentoring junior team members or students

Desirable

  • Additional supervision training undertaken

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.