Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join Hertfordshire Community Trust's Sensory Processing Service. The role involves supporting children and young people, their families, and schools with sensory processing differences and occupational performance challenges. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, delivering universal, targeted, and specialist support across Hertfordshire. The position is part-time and permanent, offering opportunities for professional development and service involvement.
Key responsibilities
- Work closely with the MDT to deliver universal, targeted, and specialist support to children, young people, and their families in various settings.
- Maintain a high degree of professionalism when working in settings with a highly emotive atmosphere with multi-disciplinary Teams.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge and skills of sensory processing differences for children and young people.
- Implement reasonable adjustments and inclusive practices.
- Work both in a team environment and autonomously.
Essential criteria
- Degree or higher in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Very experienced in working with children and young people with sensory processing differences
- Very experienced in supporting with children, young people and their families with occupational performance challenges.
- Extensive experience working in a multidisciplinary team
- Independent and autonomous clinician
- The right to live and work in the UK
Desirable criteria
- It is desirable for staff to hold/be working towards a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use with business insurance (unless the member of staff has a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 5d
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Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
Do you have a strong interest in working in sensory processing with children and young people, their families and schools? Do you want to be part of a pioneering service within Hertfordshire?
Hertfordshire Community Trust has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to support children and young people, their families and schools within the Sensory Processing Service.
We are looking for 0.6 WTE Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapists to bring skills and experience of working within the Sensory Processing Service. The successful candidates will also join our large and innovative team of therapists and assistance working within our community service.
*Proposed interview date: 23rd September 2026*
HCT will prioritise recruitment of workers living in England under the new immigration rules for care workers effective from 9 April 2025. Employers must first prove that they have attempted to recruit a worker from within England who needs new sponsorship. This ensures that those who came to the UK to pursue a career in adult social care can do so.
Main duties of the job
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