Specialist Community Occupational Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 pa inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, W9 2NW |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7193148/333-J-WE-0757 |
Summary
This is a unique opportunity for a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist to lead and shape the occupational therapy offer across Westminster’s Community Mental Health Hubs. Based within the Queens Park and Paddington (QPP) Hub, you’ll take a key role in embedding recovery-focused, trauma-informed and occupation-centred practice across QPP, North and South Westminster hubs.
We are committed to strengthening OT identity, improving access to specialist OT input, and ensuring service users benefit from meaningful, evidence-based interventions that support self-management, skill development and social inclusion. As part of a wider borough-wide transformation, this role offers scope to develop the psychosocial pathways, support staff development, and influence strategic service design alongside the Borough Head OT and other lead clinicians.
You’ll be joining a values-driven, collaborative service with strong links to acute, rehabilitation and voluntary and third sector partners — where there is real appetite for innovation, co-production, and occupational therapy leadership at the heart of mental health care.
We’re looking for someone who is clinically confident, proactive, and deeply committed to the power of occupation in supporting recovery. You’ll manage a complex clinical caseload and contribute to the borough-wide psychosocial pathway through individual and group work.
You’ll provide professional and clinical leadership to occupational therapists across the Westminster hubs — supporting consistent practice standards, mentoring junior staff and apprentices, and helping to grow a learning culture through supervision, training, and student placement coordination.
You’ll take the lead in developing OT-specific pathways that reflect the aims of community transformation — with a strong focus on rehabilitation, skill-building and prevention, helping people stay well in the community and easing pressure on acute services.
Collaboration is key in this role — working closely with MDT colleagues, inpatient services, and voluntary and third sector partners to build smooth, responsive transitions between services. You’ll also contribute to quality improvement, research and innovation, and link in with other Lead OTs and transformation projects across CNWL.
We’re keen to hear from candidates who bring compassion, flexibility, strong communication skills, and a clear commitment to inclusive, trauma-informed care. A willingness to undertake Open Dialogue training and support its implementation within Westminster services is also expected.
We are delighted that you are interested in working with us here at CNWL. Our Trust is an exciting place to work, offering a wealth of continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities for all our staff.
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally, and internationally for providing high-quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values. Our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We are a Trust committed to staff personal development, with a Trust-wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
We encourage staff input and ideas related to moving services forward, improving care pathways, and meeting the needs of our client group.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Clinical Practice
• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions for service users with complex needs, using a trauma-informed and recovery-focused approach.
• Promote inclusion and equality in all clinical practices, respecting the diverse backgrounds and experiences of service users and carers.
• Apply specialist knowledge to group and individual interventions that support service users’ wellbeing, recovery, and participation in daily life.
Leadership and Service Development
• Provide professional leadership, supervision, and support to occupational therapists across the Westminster Community Mental Health Hubs.
• Contribute to the strategic development of occupational therapy within the service, in collaboration with the Head OT and other senior leaders.
• Support workforce development, including recruitment, supervision, performance management, and student education.
Communication and Collaboration
• Promote the role and value of occupational therapy within multidisciplinary teams and wider services.
• Work closely with colleagues, community agencies, and service users to ensure integrated, person-centred care.
• Represent OT in key service and referral meetings and build strong local networks.
Quality, Governance and Research
• Lead and participate in quality improvement, clinical audit, and service evaluation to enhance practice and outcomes.
• Ensure safe, effective, and compliant clinical governance across the OT provision.
• Promote a culture of reflective practice, innovation, and continuous professional development.
Professional Development and Supervision
• Engage in ongoing learning and support the development of others through supervision, mentorship, and training delivery.
• Uphold professional standards and ensure practice aligns with HCPC, RCOT, and Trust guidelines.
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This advert closes on Monday 26 May 2025
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