Senior Occupational Therapist - CYP Eating Disorders Day Programme

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Foundation Trust as a Senior Occupational Therapist, responsible for delivering high-quality care in an enhanced community service for young people with eating disorders. You'll support clinical assessments and interventions, guide junior staff, and ensure effective collaboration within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Occupational Therapist.
• Evidence of interest in further professional development.
• Experience with children/youth with emotional/behavioral issues.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and develop treatment plans for young people.
• Provide clinical interventions and family support.
• Oversee supervision and appraisal for junior staff.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Specialist knowledge of OT assessments

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Diploma/Degree qualification in occupational therapy

HCPC Registration

Post graduate training in Sensory Integration

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Occupational Therapist - CYP Eating Disorders Day Programme

The closing date is 20 June 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our Eating Disorders Day Programme Service for young people and their families to attend.

The Day Programme is a small service that provides an enhanced level of care in the community following specialist inpatient treatment or step-up care from the community for young people with eating disorders. The service provides a structured and time limited programme of interventions for young people and their family members delivered by a multidisciplinary team.

You will have the support of an amazing senior Eating Disorders team for supervision, reflective practice and development.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The post holder will be involved in the day to day running of the programme. Being involved in assessment of referrals, providing an evidence based therapeutic programme, 1:1 clinical interventions for the young, providing the family support and coaching during meal times. Where appropriate supporting reintegration with school and community hobbies.

You will provide and also oversee supervision and appraisal for junior staff.

The post is based at Verney House in Kensington & Chelsea - at 1b Hollywood Road, SW10 9HS

About us

The Eating Disorders team is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures with regular supervision. This is a great opportunity to join our team to support in the delivery of high-quality eating disorders services for North West London. We are looking for exceptional individuals with the right attitude, skills and knowledge who share our passion to deliver the best quality care experience for children and their families.

You will also be part a the wider OT team across the ageless eating disorder service. As well as the wider CNWL OT workforce.

Hear from our staff what it's like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please CLICK HERE to watch the video"

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and responsibilities

• Clinical
• Provide assessments of people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
• Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• Be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need
• Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
• Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of ED Day Programme care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care
• To provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence based occupational therapy assessments as part of a comprehensive multi professional assessment for children in order to establish and meet their occupational needs.
• To provide comprehensive occupational therapy assessment of a child or young persons motor, process and sensory development. To inform the provision of advice and on-going intervention related to an individuals therapy needs.
• To select and use validated, evidence based standardised assessment tools (CAMHs/mental health & eating disorder Occupational Therapy assessment tools)
• To use expert clinical reasoning skills, to analyse and interpret complex assessment findings from both standardised and non-standardised assessments and a range of sources e.g. medical reports, Social Services and Education reports in order to assist with establishing an accurate diagnosis and prognosis as well as ascertain progress potential and formulate uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary rehabilitation goals. This includes being able to analyse and interpret complex clinical and social information from a range of sources e.g. medical reports, social services and education reports, and integrate it appropriately into Occupational Therapy assessment, therapy plans and Education Health Care Plan.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registered Occupational Therapist.
• Diploma/Degree qualification in occupational therapy
• Evidence of an active interest in further professional development with CAMHS, Paediatric &/or Mental health specific workshops and short courses
• Post graduate training in Sensory Integration
• Practice Placement Educator's Course.
• Registration with RCOT.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• Post qualification experience of working with children or young people with emotional and behavioural issues or eating disorder experience
• Experience in using a range of standardised OT assessments
• Experience of effective partnership working, with external providers, in promoting socially inclusive opportunities for children and young peoples
• Experience of working within a CAMHS setting

Skills and Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions and outcome measures, relevant to client group.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.
• Skills in producing timely, accurate and informative reports and notes
• Excellent communication skills i.e. written, verbal, listening and proficient use of up to date systems of communication i.e. IT systems, e-mail, fax, telephone etc.
• Knowledge of personal recovery principles and their application to service delivery
• Clear concept of Occupational Therapy and models of practice
• Ability to work autonomously, on own initiative and under pressure to meet deadlines; & to prioritise workload.
• Ability to regularly identify and undertake appropriate learning and development opportunities as part of ongoing CPD
• Ability to ensure the application of risk assessment and risk management strategies which facilitates children and young people's recovery
• Ability to determine the impact of mental and physical conditions on a children and young people's functional ability and undertake assessment/make recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£44,806 to £53,134 a yearPer annum including HCAS