South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Job summary
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist, with CAMHS experience, to work within National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. The clinician will be working with Deaf Children with emotional/behavioural problems, their parents, schools, and other agencies in the community. This role would suit a deaf, or hearing, BSL using or non-BSL using clinician, as training can be provided.
We are looking for a qualified Occupational Therapist, with an extensive background in child mental health. Experience working with young people with neurodiversity, sensory and behavioural disorders, would be ideal, however, additional training could be given for the successful candidate.
The successful candidate would carry a small caseload and be expected to work autonomously and collaboratively with both deaf and hearing colleagues, providing a full occupational therapy assessment and intervention to deaf children and young people, and their families/carers, across the East of England region, from a range of community settings, or using virtual meeting technology.
Main duties of the job
The post holder would join a small group of Occupational Therapists working with deaf young people with mental health needs across the East of England, Kent and London and would receive full clinical supervision from an OT experienced in this area as well as professional development support.
Full BSL and deaf awareness training will be made available for the post holder alongside BSL interpreter support as required. For those wishing to gain experience and are unfamiliar working within this specialist area will have the opportunity to learn about deaf culture.
The team is based in Cambridge covering the East of England; however, there could be an opportunity for this post to be fulltime, if the candidate was willing to work in both Cambridge and London Teams. Please let us know if you are interested in working full time.
Person Specification
Education, Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registration to practice in the UK
- Evidence of post registration training relevant to mental health practice
- Training in the theory and application of the model of human occupation within the first 4 months of appointment
- BSL level 1 or willingness to complete this in the first year of appointment
Desirable
- Masters degree in subject relevant to clinical post
- Practice placement educators course within one year of appointment
- Leadership training
- BSL level 2 or above
Experience
Essential
- Experience of carrying a caseload of service users with complex and diverse needs in a mental health setting
- Post-graduate clinical experience highly related to clinical field
- Experience of working in an inter-professional team.
- Experience of working within a multi-agency environment.
- Experience of working in a range of mental health settings
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural context
- Experience of maintaining a written record of continual professional development
- Experience of individual and groupwork
- Active involvement in service change/development
- Experience of writing specialist occupational therapy reports
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Experience of being a practice placement educator
- Experience of using mental health services as a service user, or carer, relative, friend of a service user.
- Experience of publishing own work
- Post-registration research activity
- Experience of working within the Deaf community
Closing Date: 1 September 2026
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