Band 6 Community Occupational Therapist

Job overview

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 • 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Respoinsibilities

• To carry a caseload for which you have clinical responsibility.
• 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.
• 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.
• To provide both specific individual assessment and treatment when indicated, involving motivating, and adapting sessions and approach to allow full occupational participation.
• 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.

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