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Specialist Occupational Therapist – Band 6

Brief Job Overview

Tripod Partners are recruiting an experienced Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist for a locum opportunity with NELFT, working within the Community Recovery – Rough Sleepers Service in Redbridge. This role provides specialist Occupational Therapy support to individuals experiencing homelessness, rough sleeping, or housing instability.

The successful candidate will manage a caseload of individuals with severe and enduring mental illness, using a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and recovery-focused approach. You will assess functional ability, occupational performance, cognition, sensory needs, and environmental barriers, helping individuals to improve independence, wellbeing, recovery, and community integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessments with individuals experiencing homelessness, rough sleeping, or housing instability.
• Assess occupational performance, functional ability, activities of daily living (ADLs), and executive functioning.
• Assess sensory needs, cognition, and environmental barriers affecting occupational participation.
• Identify the impact of mental illness, trauma, substance misuse, emotional health, physical health, and social exclusion on occupational performance.
• Develop person-centred Occupational Therapy intervention plans focused on recovery, independence, wellbeing, and community integration.
• Deliver trauma-informed, strengths-based, and recovery-focused Occupational Therapy interventions.
• Manage an allocated caseload of individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions.
• Work collaboratively with individuals and wider professionals to support engagement and positive outcomes.
• Use Occupational Therapy assessment and clinical reasoning skills to identify barriers to meaningful activity and participation.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with professional and service requirements.

About You

You will be a registered Occupational Therapist with experience managing a caseload of patients with severe and enduring mental illness. Experience working with individuals experiencing rough sleeping or homelessness is essential for this specialist service.

You will have a strong understanding of recovery-focused Occupational Therapy and be confident delivering trauma-informed and strengths-based interventions. Experience using RiO is essential.

Requirements

• Relevant Occupational Therapy qualification.
• Current HCPC registration.
• Experience holding and managing a clinical caseload.
• Experience working with individuals experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.
• Experience working with individuals experiencing rough sleeping, homelessness, or housing instability.
• Strong Occupational Therapy assessment and clinical reasoning skills.
• Experience assessing occupational performance, ADLs, executive functioning, cognition, sensory needs, and environmental barriers.
• Understanding of the impact of mental illness, trauma, substance misuse, and social exclusion on occupational participation.
• Ability to deliver trauma-informed, strengths-based, and recovery-focused interventions.
• RiO knowledge is essential.
• Strong communication, engagement, and multidisciplinary working skills.

Contract & Salary

• Role: Specialist Occupational Therapist – Band 6
• Employer: NELFT
• Location: Redbridge
• Service: Community Recovery – Rough Sleepers Service
• Area: North East London NHS
• Contract Type: Locum
• Contract Length: Ongoing
• Salary: Negotiable
• Working Hours: Shifts, 09:00 – 17:00

How to Apply

If you are a Band 6 Occupational Therapist with experience in severe and enduring mental illness, rough sleepers or homelessness services, and strong recovery-focused practice, Tripod Partners would love to hear from you.

To apply for this Specialist Occupational Therapist – Band 6 role, apply using the form on the page.

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