Band 5 Community Occupational Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Would you like to work in an innovative trauma informed team, where there is a strong focus on staff development and delivering high quality care? We are looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our well-established, diverse team. We want you to bring your unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to our OT team as diversity makes us stronger.

You will have the opportunity to specialise your skills in a number of areas, including:

  • Sensory integration for service users with complex emotional needs and neuro-diverse needs;
  • Regular Trauma Informed Approaches training and team formulation
  • Weekly Inservice training covering a number of skills (Motivational Interviewing, Crisis Management, risk assessments, substance misuses, various psychological therapies and more)
  • Model of Creative Ability Training
  • Offering OT specific one-to-one and group interventions such as Recovery Pathway, Recovery Through Activity, Sensory Awareness

The Team serves the diverse and vibrant population of the London Borough of Harrow. We are located in Harrow and Wealdstone and a 10-minute walk from the Town Centre. The nearest over ground station is Harrow Wealdstone.

Main duties of the job

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Occupational Therapists work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by drawing support from more experienced staff, and other health professionals, but also by ensuringadherence to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

Occupational Therapist band 5 will work alongside the band 6 OT to provide assessment and intervention for the population of Harrow with Mental Health diagnosis and also contribute to service development and other projects.

You will have an OT-specific caseload, consisting of assessment, groupwork and individual interventions as well as contributing towards our Community Psychosocial Therapies offer with our Psychology colleagues. We work within the Recovery Framework and Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) encouraging independence, social integration and the achievement of personalised goals. You will have the opportunity to use your skills and creativity to contribute to the development and implementation of treatment programs, pathways and initiatives in order for us to deliver high quality, evidence-based interventions that improve service users’ functional abilities, independence and overall quality of life.

Applicants must have a qualification in Occupational Therapy and be HCPC registered in order to be considered for the post.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant work/voluntary experience in mental health or related setting.

Desirable

  • Computerised data collection systems in a health setting
  • Experience of training others in technical, leisure or creative skills
  • Experience of working in Community Mental Health.
  • Planning, implementation & evaluation of group interventions
  • Experience of working in a multi cultural environment

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
  • Registered with HCPC

Desirable

  • Practice education training

Clinical Skills

Essential

  • Application of OT process
  • Risk management
  • Reflective practice
  • Client centred practice
  • Ability to prioritise work load and use own initiative
  • Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person
  • Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills

Desirable

  • Able to delegate work to others in clinical team

Specialist Knowledge

Essential

  • OT theory related to practice
  • OT Process
  • Mental health conditions
  • Relevant legislation
  • Clinical governance
  • Code of ethics and professional conduct

Desirable

  • Familiarity with MOHO assessment process

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: 30 August 2026

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