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Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Tottenham; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Specialist clinical work

Development for Band 5 & 6 candidates

Onsite canteen with discount

Supportive management

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join a specialist Eating Disorder Day Programme in North London. You will run therapeutic groups, deliver individual interventions, monitor physical health, and support service development in a high-impact, high-complexity setting.

The role requires handling a diverse caseload and adapting therapies to meet sensory and communication needs, with a strong emphasis on safety and recovery.

Qualifications

• Carry a caseload with clinical responsibility.
• Assess clients using standardised tools and promote recovery.
• Adapt interventions for complex needs and autism spectrum considerations.

Responsibilities

• Carry a caseload with clinical responsibility.
• Deliver intensive, recovery-focused interventions and group work.
• Monitor physical health and interpret blood results as needed.
• Supervise junior staff and provide supervision to students.
• Collaborate with inpatient and outpatient teams in a connected service.

Skills

Caseload management

Group therapy

MOHOST assessments

Physical health monitoring

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Job description

Band 6 Occupational Therapist Across Service | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Salary: £45,953 - £54,254 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS

This isn't your average clinical role. Are you up for it?

We're a specialist Eating Disorder Day Programme in North London — a tight-knit team doing complex, high-impact work with a diverse patient population. We're looking for a driven Occupational Therapist who want more: more challenge, more growth, more purpose.

About the Role

You'll be working at the heart of our clinical team, delivering intensive, recovery-focused treatment to patients with eating disorders. That means running therapeutic groups, providing individual interventions, monitoring physical health, and contributing to the operational backbone that allows our service to function — and expand. This is a role for someone who takes high-risk care seriously and thrives in a specialist environment.

What We Offer

What We Offer

• Specialist clinical work with a real sense of purpose
• Development for both Band 5 & 6 candidates
• Genuine support from day one — manager, OT leads, and experienced peers
• A support structure that's real, not just on paper
• Onsite canteen with discount and accessible, hands-on management
• A culture where people look out for each other — just as they do for patients

Sound like your kind of challenge? Don't just scroll past — get in touch or apply today.

The post holder will be responsible for managing their own caseload, facilitating therapeutic groups (including community-based groups such as Social Snack and Shop and Cook), conducting physical health assessments and blood result interpretation, providing self-harm management, and working with patients across the complexity spectrum including those with severe physical compromise and autistic people. The role requires adaptation of therapeutic approaches to meet diverse communication and sensory needs.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider Eating Disorders service including inpatient ward and outpatient teams. The post holder will deputise for the Day Programme Manager in their absence, supervise junior staff and students, and provide operational support including patient escort duties and supervision during activities. This operational support is critical to enabling the Day Programme Manager to attend meetings, training, supervision, and complete managerial responsibilities.

This role is instrumental in enabling planned service development to collaborate with the Day Programme Manager.

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

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?

Why NLFT?

• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars.

Main Responsibilities

1. To carry a caseload for which you have clinical responsibility.
2. Using an evidenced based approach assess client’s needs, establish aims and objectives, and plan Occupational Therapy treatment programme in consultation with members of the multi-disciplinary teams, involving the client in decisions regarding appropriate interventions.
3. To carry out a range of standardised/non-standardised assessments, e.g. MOHOST in accordance with OT Pathway to provide a baseline for OT with clear treatment objectives.
4. To provide both specific individual assessment and treatment when indicated, involving motivating, and adapting sessions and approach to allow full occupational participation.
5. To adapt activities and assessment to facilitate persons with Cognitive difficulties, Language difficulties, social skills deficits and Challenging behaviour, to work with interpreters where required.

Please see attached JD for more information.

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This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026