North London NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Occupational Therapist Across Service
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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
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Role Responsibilities
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.
Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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Why NLFT?
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Karee Barclay
- Job title: Day Programme Manager/Occupational Therapy Lead
- Email address: kareebarclay@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02087026240
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