# Camden Community Occupational Therapist - Band 6 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camden-community-occupational-therapist-band-6/f0742ba8-b432-47c2-8db4-f2666638cfe2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camden-community-occupational-therapist-band-6/f0742ba8-b432-47c2-8db4-f2666638cfe2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-17T08:01:18.055Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Mental_Health/Community_Mental_Health-v8130573 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8130573?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a motivated and passionate Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work in a dedicated mental health community team in a diverse, creative and connected London Borough.  We encourage you to apply if you are keen to use your core OT skills,  to champion high quality and innovative OT interventions working with adults in the community.  The role will cover the  community mental health team and assertive outreach and will be an opportunity to shape the service, to  develop leadership skills within the service and across the Trust through training, individual and peer supervision opportunities. This role offers the chance to work creatively, offering strengths-focused individual and group interventions that empower and bring lasting change for our clients, in their homes and the local vibrant community of Camden   Please apply or call for further information, if you are interested. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will hold a case load and work as an Occupational Therapist in adult community mental health services, to provide assessment, plan and implement interventions, evaluate treatment and ensure safe discharge.  They will offer time limited interventions with clear goals, using a recovery-focused approach that enhances daily living skills and supports engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities, for service users across the community.   The occupational therapist will work closely with the multidiciplinary including voluntary sector staff developing a collaborative service offer and offering clinical supervision to other junior staff in the MDT, including Employment Support. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Manage a caseload of service users in the community and be key clinician for the service - Deliver occupational therapy assessments and interventions including groups and individual - Support people to develop daily living skills, independence, and meaningful activity - Supervise, students and other junior staff members including employment support offering support from an OT perspective - Work closely with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies - Contribute to recovery-focused care planning and safe discharge - Engage in community-based and home visit work - Be an active member of the community occupational therapy team within the borough and across the care group - Act as deputy to team lead when required, taking on some management tasks and attendance at senior clinical and network meetings ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - BSc or PGDip/MSc Occupational Therapy - Registered with HCPC - Evidence of Continuous Professional Development **Desirable** - Additional qualification in mental health ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Ability to promote self and profession - 'can do' attitude ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Ability to apply and develop core OT skills - Experience of working autonomously and ability to sustain demands of working with a challenging and emotive client group - Effective written communication skills to includes reports, assessments, supervision - Able to be a proactive team member and willingness to contribute towards OT service development **Desirable** - Ability in using MOHO assessments i.e. MOHOST and working with Recovery principles, - Experience of co-facilitation of groups - Ability to supervise junior staff ### Experience/work history **Essential** - Post graduate experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of pos - Experience of delivering group and individual interventions - Experience of relating to people form a range of social and ethnic backgrounds - Knowledge and experience of work with Recovery principles - Experience with service user involvement **Desirable** - Experience of working within mental health setting - Experience of using standardised assessments, e.g. MOHOST - Experience/ knowledge of minor equipment/ adaptation ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 552.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10428424) - [band 6 community ot person spec (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427849) - [band 6 community ot person spec (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427850) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.