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Job requirements
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Current HCPC registration.
- Qualifications
Evidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice e.g. dementia/frailty.
- Skills/ Abilities
Ability to work autonomously.
- Skills/ Abilities
Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc.
- Skills/ Abilities
Demonstrate experience of adaptability to change.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Minimum of 1 years post graduate experience.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience of working in a senior specialist capacity with people living with mental illness or dementia in a community or inpatient setting.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience of working with family members and carers of individuals with mental illness, age-related frailty, and/or dementia.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience of liaising and working with other agencies and carers.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Demonstrate a clear understanding of own role and that of others within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstration of our values
Ability to provide clear examples of how they have demonstrated the core values in their previous work experience.
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Sensory Integration training.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience of working in a mental health/crisis team.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool including the use of MOHO specific outcome measures.
- Experience/ Knowledge
Experience of service improvement/Quality Improvement and willingness to participate in.
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Specialist OT with North London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £47,951 - £56,863 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Nov 2026.
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