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Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; London Borough of Islington; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to support the Older Adults South Home Treatment Team. You will perform comprehensive functional assessments and recommend aids and strategies to promote independence.

The role includes generic mental health assessments, follow-up visits, and autonomous decision making to safely manage acutely unwell service users at home, helping avoid hospital admission.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive functional assessments to establish level of function and independence in activities of daily living.
• Generic mental health assessments, examinations and follow-up visits.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive functional assessments to establish service users' level of function and motivation in attending to activities of daily living.
• Provide recommendations for aids, adaptations, sensory support and other strategies to promote function, independence and wellbeing.
• Undertake generic mental health assessments, examinations and follow-up visits.
• As Clinical Specialist, support service user flow through autonomous decision making when assessing acutely unwell service users at risk of hospital admission and determining whether home treatment is a safe alternative.

Job description

Clinical Specialist OT | North London NHS Foundation Trust

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Salary: £47,951 - £56,863 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS

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.

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.

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

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. 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

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.

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Nov 2026