Senior Occupational Therapist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 26 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 February 2026 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7762354/294-CAMHS-7762354-FZ |
Summary
A great opportunity for a band 6 occupational therapist with skills and knowledge in the field of Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) has arisen within the CAMHS Dynamic Support Team.
The post holder will join an experienced multi-disciplinary team with clear clinical supervision and management structure.
The work will include assessing and understanding complex and challenging behaviour/mental health in children with behaviours of concern, understanding and implementing therapeutic strategies, providing recommendations and reviewing these with the child/young person, family and network.
Children and young people referred to the Dynamic Support Team have a diagnosis of Autism, mental health difficulties and/or complex and challenging behaviour. They are at risk of psychiatric hospital admission, and/or placement breakdown.
Opportunities to develop and grow as an occupational therapist and supervise junior members of staff.
We are looking for people who share our passion to develop a first-class service for Autistic children and young people in South West London
The post combines direct clinical work with children and families with consultation to CAMHS, teaching staff, social workers and others. The work will include assessing and understanding complex and challenging behaviour, mental health, trauma-informed work, developing individualised support plans, and direct work with children and young people.
We are looking for someone with experience who:
• Has experience of working with Autistic children and young people and/or mental health difficulties, and/or behaviours of concern.
• Skills in the use of risk assessment, and mental health assessment and intervention and management
• Skills and ability to communicate in a variety of ways and within a range of networks and good muti-tasking skills.
• Likes a challenge and works well in a team
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.
The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. However, please be mindful that AOT provides a service across the whole 5 boroughs of South West London and provides predominantly home-based care.
The post holder will:
• Join a multi-disciplinary team with CAMHS Dynamic Support Team
• Provide evidence-based treatment;
• Have an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels;
• Co-ordinate care for those children, young people and families on their caseload;
• Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures;
• Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures.
• Use screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experience.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Feb 2026