Band 5 Community Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 12/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join a trauma-informed team in Harrow, focusing on staff development and high-quality care. You will provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence-based occupational therapy assessments and interventions for service users with mental health diagnoses. The position involves managing an OT-specific caseload, contributing to group work and individual interventions, and supporting service users' recovery and social integration. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, drawing support from experienced staff and contributing to service development.
Essential criteria
- Relevant work/voluntary experience in mental health or related setting.
- 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
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered with HCPC
- Practice education training
- Clinical Skills
- 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
- Able to delegate work to others in clinical team
- Specialist Knowledge
- OT theory related to practice
- OT Process
- Mental health conditions
- Relevant legislation
- Clinical governance
- Code of ethics and professional conduct
- Familiarity with MOHO assessment process
- Relevant work/voluntary experience in mental health or related setting.
- 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
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered with HCPC
- Practice education training
- Clinical Skills
- 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
- Able to delegate work to others in clinical team
- Specialist Knowledge
- OT theory related to practice
- OT Process
- Mental health conditions
- Relevant legislation
- Clinical governance
- Code of ethics and professional conduct
- Familiarity with MOHO assessment process
Desirable criteria
- Practice education training
- Experience Essential
- Relevant work/voluntary experience in mental health or related setting.
- oExperience of developing a basic research proposal
- oExperience of working in a multi cultural environment
- oExperience of working in a community mental health setting
- oComputerised data collection systems in a health setting
- oPlanning, implementation & evaluation of group interventions
- oExperience of training others in technical, leisure or creative skills
- oInterest in participating in evidence based activities according to departmental need.
- Clinical Skills Essential
- oApplication of OT process
- oRisk management
- oReflective practice
- oClient-centred practice
- oAbility to prioritise work load and use own initiative
- oAbility to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person
- oAble to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
- oAble to delegate work to others in clinical team
- Job description
- Job responsibilities
- Clinical
- 1.1 To provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence based occupational therapy assessments for service users within the team in order to establish and meet their occupational needs.
- 1.2 To select and use validated standardised assessment tools routinely and in practice, exhibiting clinical reasoning skills; to include the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) assessments.
- 1.3 To plan, implement and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches.
- 1.4 To support service users and colleagues to ensure that care plans are developed in partnership with the individual and that they reflect recovery goals. These should be strengths-based and oriented towards reinforcing a positive identity and developing valued social roles.
- 1.5 To identify opportunities and needs for group work in the community and to plan, implement, facilitate and evaluate community groups which promote social inclusion for service users.
- 1.6 To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service users social and physical environment.
- 1.7 To determine the impact of mental and physical conditions on service users functional ability and undertake assessment/make recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.
- 1.8 To provide monitoring of medication, for all service users on both generic and OT specific caseload, in line with the CNWL OT Medication Management Guidelines.
- 1.9 To follow local protocol and obtain recommended equipment and/or liaise with local providers of equipment to ensure provision as appropriate.
- 1.10 To proactively undertake and ensure rigorous risk assessment & risk management strategies are applied. To ensure maximum risk tolerance facilitates the individuals recovery, in line with risk policies and local guidelines.
- 1.11 To work in partnership with other agencies and offer supervision and guidance to external agencies as required.
- 1.12 For Practitioners to be aware of and sensitiveto the safeguarding needs of children and adults in their work, and knowledgeable both about potential indicators of abuse or neglect and about what to do if they had concerns about a child's or adult's welfare & to identify carers needs in line with CPA policy and Care Act 2014.
- 1.13 To support service users in relation to their physical health, employment, and housing and welfare benefits issues; referring to specialist provider services as necessary.
- 1.14 To provide OT consultation to other professionals within the team.
- 1.15 To provide all service users on caseload with a full adult mental health assessment and offer regular monitoring of mental state.
- 1.16 To provide service users with therapeutic care including within the indi
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Community Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 30 August 2026
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.
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