Senior Occupational Therapist MHST
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist within the Harrow Mental Health Support Team (MHST), based in CNWL Early Intervention CAMHS. The post holder will work across Harrow schools, supporting children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs. Responsibilities include delivering evidence-based, short-term occupational therapy interventions and supporting whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. The role also involves developing the OT pathway within Harrow MHST.
Key responsibilities
- Provide occupational therapy assessment, intervention, consultation and signposting for children and young people within Harrow schools.
- Deliver individual and group work, psychoeducation, and promote healthy routines, emotional regulation, and participation in education, self-care, and leisure.
- Work in partnership with schools, parents/carers, and other professionals to develop strengths-based care plans.
- Support whole school approaches to wellbeing, provide training, workshops, and consultation to education staff.
- Care for a caseload of children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and identified occupational performance or participation needs.
- Contribute to supervision of junior colleagues and other team members, and participate in service development.
Essential criteria
- Relevant Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy
- Additional qualifications and training in Child and Adolescent mental health
- Registered with the HCPC and BAOT
- Substantial consolidated experience working as an occupational therapist in paediatrics or mental health.
- Experience of delivering evidenced-based occupational therapy interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems
- Experience running therapy groups and/or training events
- Experience either working as a member of a multidisciplinary team or multi-agency working.
- Good understanding of the range of child and adolescent mental health services
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
- Excellent oral/written communication
- Able to communicate effectively with the team, through face to face, video call, telephone and email communication. This includes discussing case work, taking note of actions, updating others in the team and use team meetings effectively.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Excellent communication, assessment, planning and recording skills.
- Ability to deliver interventions which address the assessed needs.
- Ability to work co-operatively with other disciplines.
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
- Able to maintain electronic patient records
- Use Microsoft products including Word for letter and report writing, PowerPoint for presentations and workshop delivery and Excel for service monitoring and evaluation.
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and young people/families
- Ability to carry out group work and deliver workshops
- Ability to deliver training sessions
- Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
- Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.
- Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Knowledge of educational environments
- Knowledge of children and young people safeguarding legislation, policies and procedures
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
- Knowledge and Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion by delivering culturally responsive and accessible care to children, young people, families, schools and colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Formal CBT training
- Accredited courses/workshops in CYP-IAPT principles
- Substantial consolidated experience working in child and adolescent mental health.
- Knowledge and experience in mental health promotion work.
- Experience of delivering evidenced-based occupational therapy interventions for mental health issues to CYP both individually, to parent(s)/carer(s) and in groups.
- Experience of delivering evidenced-based CBT informed interventions to CYP and their families for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood
- Experience of working with schools to support CYP emotional well-being needs
- Ability to use IT systems for evaluation of interventions and practice for service improvement.
- Experience of conducting group parenting programmes.
- Experience of providing mental health consultation and signposting to education staff and other professionals.
- Experience delivering trainings and psycho-educational workshops about mental health issues
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist MHST
The closing date is 06 October 2026
Job summary
This is a role within theGreen Paper for Transforming children and young people's mental health.We are seeking a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to join our diverse Harrow Mental Health Support Team (MHST), based within CNWL Early Intervention CAMHS. The post holder will work across Harrow schools, supporting children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs, including anxiety, low mood, behavioural difficulties, and occupational performance or participation needs.
This role will involve delivering evidence-based, short-term occupational therapy interventions, supporting whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing, and working closely with our key stakeholders which include children, young people, families, schools, and multi-disciplinary colleagues. The post holder will also contribute to the development of the OT pathway within Harrow MHST in line with CYP-IAPT principles.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide occupational therapy assessment, intervention, consultation and signposting for children and young people within Harrow schools. This will include individual and group work, psychoeducation, promoting healthy routines, supporting emotional regulation, improving participati
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