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Main area
Occupational Therapist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term Contract 12 Months)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
260-NLFT-0768
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust 260
Employer type
NHS
Site
5 Pancras Square with cross borough travel
Town
London
Salary
£66,274 - £73,496 per annum pro rata, inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2026 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust 260 logo

Highly Specialist CAMHS Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.

We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit  https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

 

Job overview

2 x Band 8a, 1.0 WTE Fixed Term Contracts (12 months) Registered Mental Health Nurse & Occupational Therapist

Roles will be seconded to Camden Local Authority

Are you looking for an opportunity to build on your experience as a senior clinician and clinical leader? If so, we have a great opportunity for an experienced and dynamic qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse & Occupational Therapist to join a new pilot: North Central London Complex Adolescent Intensive Community Support Team. 

This is a new partnership-based multi-disciplinary initiative that will be hosted by the London Borough of Camden and will initially work with Camden, Barnet and Islington local authorities. This is currently a 12-month pilot programme.  A short-term intensive, therapeutic, community-based support will be provided to children and young people aged 13–18, who have complex needs and circumstances and their families, when there is a high risk of family or placement breakdown. The aim of the service is to enable children and young people to receive personalised care in the community, closer to home, to reduce preventable and unhelpful admissions to CAMHS inpatient services and acute hospitals and reduce the number of delayed discharges within inpatient services. It aims to reduce the need for children and young people to be accommodated in high-cost social care placements, social care placements that are far away from their local area and reducing the potential for multiple placement breakdowns.

Main duties of the job

·       The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team including responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance, planning and prioritising these

·       Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highly skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities

·       Work with Clinical Lead on intake and referral coordination

·       Provide consultation to other agencies as required such as: CAMHS, Local Authorities, Placement Providers, Schools and GPs

·       Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes with their clinical care

·       Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests

·       To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the Clinical Lead

·       Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient’s psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy

Working for our organisation

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

 

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

 

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

 

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

 

Both roles will be seconded to Camden Local Authority

Please note that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will be merging with North London Foundation Trust on 01 April 2026, therefore this recruitment will conclude under North London Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

If you are interested, please feel free to contact:

Christiana Young, Service Lead (Systemic Workforce), [email protected]

Lottie Laverty, Service Clinical Lead, Camden CAMHS Unit, Systemic & Family Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist and Mental Health Nurse, [email protected]

Closing date: Friday 1st May 2026, midnight

Provisional Interview Dates: Wednesday 20th May 2026 AM and Wednesday 27th May 2026 AM

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ master’s level
  • Registration with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist
Desirable criteria
  • Qualifications as a Systemic Practitioner (foundation and intermediate level of AFT recognised systemic training)
  • Additional CYP-PT Trainings (e.g. CBT, ASD/LD, Parenting, Systemic)
  • Additional training in: NVR, Open Dialogue, AMBIT
  • Additional training in: Positive Behavioural Support [PBS]

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population
  • A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
  • A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
  • Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
  • Expertise in managing and treating the client group
  • Some experience of clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
  • Some experience of clinical management of staff
  • Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement

Skills

Essential criteria
  • High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
  • Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
  • Ability to manage own clinical case load

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
  • Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
  • Knowledge of Positive Behavioural Support [PBS] models.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
  • Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
  • Ability to work effectively within a team
  • Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
  • Flexible approach to working hours to meet service needs

Other

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel
  • Keyboard / IMT skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lottie Laverty
Job title
Service Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Christina Young, Service Lead (Systemic Workforce)

 [email protected]

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