# Clinical Specialist OT

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North London NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St Pancras Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8am to 7pm weekdays, 8am to 4pm weekends/public holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T07:50:32.618Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Islington_London/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Older_Adults_Community_Mental_Health_Dementia/Older_Adults_Community_Mental_Health_Dementia-v8382614
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8382614?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Current HCPC registration.
- - Evidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice e.g. dementia/frailty.

**Desirable**

- - Sensory Integration training.

### Skills/ Abilities

**Essential**

- - Ability to work autonomously.
- - 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.
- - Demonstrate experience of adaptability to change.

### Experience/ Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Minimum of 1 years post graduate experience.
- - Experience of working in a senior specialist capacity with people living with mental illness or dementia in a community or inpatient setting.
- - Experience of working with family members and carers of individuals with mental illness, age-related frailty, and/or dementia.
- - Experience of liaising and working with other agencies and carers.
- - Demonstrate a clear understanding of own role and that of others within the multi-disciplinary team.

**Desirable**

- - Experience of working in a mental health/crisis team.
- - Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students.
- - Experience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool including the use of MOHO specific outcome measures.
- - Experience of service improvement/Quality Improvement and willingness to participate in.

### Demonstration of our values

**Essential**

- - Ability to provide clear examples of how they have demonstrated the core values in their previous work experience.

## Documents

- [htt ot jd & ps (pdf, 448.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10711592)
- [htt ot jd & ps (pdf, 488.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10711593)
- [nlft functional requirements (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10711594)
- [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959)

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