Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-NEW7396208
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- First Avenue Resource Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,763 - £43,466 per annum Inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Occupational Therapist – Mental Health Care for Older People (MHCOP)
NHS AfC: Band 5
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
The friendly Occupational Therapy team in Newham are inviting a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join the older adults in the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
This is an ideal opportunity for your first Band 5 role, and we are inviting passionate final year students to apply as well. (There is the option of starting as a Band 4 whilst awaiting HCPC registration.) The CMHT is based in the community at First Avenue Resource Centre in Plaistow. x
The Occupational Therapist is part of the established multi-disciplinary team and the role is to undertake specific Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions of referred individuals, the emphasis is on supporting the person to achieve their goals in self-care, productivity and leisure to continue to live at home; group work is encouraged; another aspect of the role is generic assessment and joint working with other team members.
Please contact us for any further discussions, visits and to answer any questions you might have.
Main duties of the job
- To provide Occupational Therapy specific assessments and intervention/treatments to a designated caseload of older people with mental health/dementia support needs via a range of individual and or group treatments.
- To develop and maintain links with the MHCOP OT service, relevant statutory and non-statutory agencies.
- To support students on practice education placements when required
- To contribute to the planning and evaluation of MHCOP services
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- • Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- • HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- • Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic alliances to be developed and maintained with clients who have complex needs
- • Analytical & clinical reasoning skills to assess clients’ complex needs (including risk assessment) & complete a holistic formulation to guide interventions with significant support & supervision
- • Ability to apply specialist skills in individual and group based OT assessments, interventions and evaluations
- • Ability to manage frequent highly distressing clinical interactions with client’s and their carers
- • Good organisational and time management skills
- • Ability to liaise with other services around clinical issues
Other
Essential criteria
- • Physical skills required to facilitate a wide range of activities both on a one-to-one and group basis, including using equipment as required
- • Mental and emotional effort required to undertake intense concentration required for clinical consultations and interventions on both a one-to-one and group basis
- • Mental and emotional effort required to undertake intense concentration for holistic formulations, report writing, etc.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lorraine Kazembe
- Job title
- Older Adults OT Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974768054
- Additional information
Diana Herrera
Older adults OT Lead Newham
07918445521
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