Clinical Specialist Ot

North London Nhs Foundation Trust; London Borough of Islington; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist for the Older Adults South Home Treatment Team (HTT) to assess function and promote independence at home. The role involves comprehensive ADL assessments, recommending aids and adaptations, and conducting mental health assessments with follow-up visits.

The successful candidate will support autonomous decision making to determine whether home treatment is a safe alternative to hospital admission, working within a

Qualifications

• Current HCPC registration.
• Post-registration training related to dementia/frailty.
• Experience in mental illness/dementia care.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Experience liaising with families, carers and other agencies.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive functional assessments to determine daily living abilities.
• Recommend aids, adaptations and sensory supports to promote function.
• Carry out generic mental health assessments and follow-up visits.
• Use autonomous decision making to support safe home treatment and avoid hospital admission.

Skills

Autonomy

IT skills

Adaptability

Education

HCPC registration

Post-registration dementia/frailty training

Tools

MOHO Screening Tool

Job description

Job summary

The Older Adults South Home Treatment Team (HTT) is a multidisciplinary team that provides care and treatment to older adults over the age of 70, or with a diagnosis of dementia, who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Support is provided in their own home as an alternative to hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Occupational Therapist will be to undertake comprehensive functional assessments to establish service users' level of function and motivation in attending to activities of daily living. The OT will recommend aids, adaptations, sensory support, and other strategies to promote function, independence and wellbeing.

In addition, the post holder will undertake generic mental health assessments, examinations, and follow up visits. As a Clinical Specialist, the post holder will support service user flow through autonomous decision making when assessing acutely unwell service users at risk of a hospital admission and determining whether home treatment is a safe alternative.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Details

Date posted: 23 October 2026

Closing date: 04 November 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 455-NLFT-8173253-A

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current HCPC registration.
• Evidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice e.g. dementia/frailty.

Desirable

• Sensory Integration training.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work autonomously.
• Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc.
• Demonstrate experience of adaptability to change.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• Minimum of 1 years post graduate experience.
• Experience of working in a senior specialist capacity with people living with mental illness or dementia in a community or inpatient setting.
• Experience of working with family members and carers of individuals with mental illness, age-related frailty, and/or dementia.
• Experience of liaising and working with other agencies and carers.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of own role and that of others within the multi-disciplinary team.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a mental health/crisis team.
• Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students.
• Experience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool including the use of MOHO specific outcome measures.
• Experience of service improvement/Quality Improvement and willingness to participate in.

Demonstration of our values

Essential

• Ability to provide clear examples of how they have demonstrated the core values in their previous work experience.

Employer details

Employer name: North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Blenheim Court, Unit 8-10 Blenheim Court, 62 Brewery Road, Islington, London, N7 9NY, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Contact

Service Manager: Jessica Danson, [e-mail], 07818012743

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.