Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO5 (£52,194 – £55,323)
Work location: 48 Station Rd, Wood Green – flexible remote working may be permitted where service needs allow 
Hours per week: 36 per week, full time
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: Sunday, 29th March 2026
Expected interview date: w/c 13th April 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

This is an opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to step confidently into advanced practice, combining hands on specialist work with leadership responsibilities. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will manage a small caseload of complex children’s and adult cases across Adult Social Care, carrying out comprehensive assessments, recommending interventions, and ensuring high quality, person centred outcomes for residents. You’ll act as a clinical expert in your field, using sound professional judgement to support effective decision making and robust risk management.

Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will play a key role in the operational running of the service. You’ll support the Team Manager in leading and motivating a multi disciplinary workforce, deputising where required, and driving high standards of performance, service improvement, data integrity, and you will have be expected to manage projects. This role is ideal for a practitioner seeking to grow into management while remaining closely connected to frontline practice.

About the Team

You will join a supportive, multi disciplinary Adult Social Care team consisting of Occupational Therapists, sensory impairment practitioners, equipment specialists, and wider health and social care partners. The team works collaboratively to maximise independence, deliver integrated care, and ensure a consistently high-quality service for residents.

About You

You will be a determined and motivated Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist with strong clinical expertise and the confidence to lead by example. You’ll bring substantial post qualification experience, including delivering complex assessments and interventions within varied settings, combined with a deep understanding of legislation, safeguarding principles, risk management, managing project and service improvement knowledge and skills. Skilled at remaining calm under pressure, you will manage a complex caseload while providing clear professional guidance to others though weekly huddles and facilitating team meetings.

As a natural leader, you will be able to nurture a high performing team, offering coaching, supervision, and constructive challenge where needed. You will be confident using performance data, driving service improvements, and promoting a strengths based, customer focused approach across all areas of practice. HCPC registration and excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills are essential, along with a commitment to Haringey’s values and a passion for improving outcomes for adults, families, and carers.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk