Specialist Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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 Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join the CAMHS General Acute Inpatient Service at Pebble Lodge. The role involves working with young people, families, and professionals, focusing on complex needs, developmental concerns, and trauma symptoms. The post holder will be responsible for the Occupational Therapy offer, providing evidence-based interventions and contributing to service development. Autonomy is necessary, but support from experienced consultants is available.
Essential criteria
- NVQ/degree/post-graduate training/Masters or equivalent level of training
Desirable criteria
- Experience working with clients with complex learning, emotional and behavioural needs
- Job specific experience
- Assesses, develops and implements occupational therapy programmes within a specialist field e.g. trauma, rehabilitation, mental health.
- Information Technology
- Able to use IT equipment incl word and RIO
- Business travel Essential
- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle/ Trust Vehicle on Trust business Level 1 application form/references/ interview
- Knowledge, skills and training
- NVQ/degree/post-graduate training/Masters or equivalent level of training
- Experience working with clients with complex learning, emotional and behavioural needs
- Job specific experience
- Assesses, develops and implements occupational therapy programmes within a specialist field e.g. trauma, rehabilitation, mental health.
- Information Technology
- Able to use IT equipment incl word and RIO
- Business travel Essential
- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle/ Trust Vehicle on Trust business Level 1 application form/references/ interview
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,509 – £45,212 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join the Team at Pebble Lodge our CAMHS General Acute Inpatient Service.
The post holder will gain experience in working with young people, families and professionals supporting them, where concerns about risk of significant harm to others have been highlighted. You will be supported by two experienced consultants; however ability to work autonomously is necessary. You will be asked to contribute to the assessment of complex needs of this group, whether directly or via liaising with the relevant adults. There is no expectation for you to be a care-coordinator. The young people often have a mix of developmental concerns and trauma symptoms, making the work varied and exciting. Knowledge and skills in sensory integration would help you to feel more confident in working with this population. Pebble Lodge is a dynamic and evolving service, therefore you will be able to contribute to the development of specialist input into this population.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the Occupational Therapy offer in Pebble Lodge.
To provide evidence-based occupational therapy and sensory integration, as well as advice, consultation, assessment, and treatments
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