Highly Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist | Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	06 January 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£56,276 - £63,176 p.a. inc.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	05 February 2026
Location:	London, E8 2FP
Company:	Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7718309/293-CCS-0817-A

Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Occupational Therapist with experience of working with children in a community, inpatient or CAMHS setting to join our dynamic Occupational Therapy team based at the Hackney Ark. You will be supported to pursue a specialism within our integrated health and social care team, driving service development and evidence-based practice within this area of practice.

For further information or if you would like to discuss the role, please contact Caoimhe Agnew, Clinical Lead Occupational Therapists on 020 7014 7025.

The post holder will be the lead Occupational Therapist for the Looked After Children’s Team (Virtual School) at Hackney Education.

The role as lead OT for LAC will involve ensuring that best practice and evidence-based practice assessment and interventions are implemented within the service. The post holder will oversee OT input into the Virtual School for Looked After Children. The post holder will take the lead on Children In Care and Care Leavers. This will include intervention with individual children, setting up groups and providing specialist advice to keyworkers within the team and social care. The post holder will provide assessment and short term direct intervention for Hackney Children In Care between the ages of 0-25 regarding difficulties/challenges within educational/workplace settings.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.




This advert closes on Sunday 18 Jan 2026

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