Advanced Practitioner - Occupational Therapy
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-1083 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and contributing to the therapeutic structure. To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high-quality patient records. To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based intervention e.g. CBT, DBT, Motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, providing groups and activities in line with the recovery model. To provide leadership for clinicians delivering therapeutic interventions in the Adult Eating Disorder Service and act as a positive role model around new ways of working and professional relationships. To provide operational management & professional leadership to clinicians working across the Adult Eating Disorder service. To provide specialist advice to professionals and managers, including in relation to professional governance. To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessments, advice and interventions using advanced, clinical reasoning skills. To provide support, education and professional leadership to non-registered staff and students. To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health. To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance, providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user's social and physical environments. To undertake the delivery of specialist occupational focused interventions including sensory and enabling approaches. To comply with the HCPC standards and the COT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. This includes providing evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and participation in professional supervision. To maintain your own continuing professional development (CPD) by maintaining an awareness of innovations and developments, and to incorporate them as appropriate into your practice. To participate in research and audit in the clinical field. To encourage and develop service user and carer involvement. To support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints. To undertake any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Service manager.