Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO3
Salary: £45,750 – £49,056 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 31st August 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 15th September 2025

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

To provide a high-quality Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention service to children and young people with complex care and therapy needs. To transform the way children and young people with emotional and mental health difficulties are supported into adulthood. Working collaboratively with children/young people and their families to develop support plans that promote wellbeing, encourage independence, integration and improve their health outcomes.
The Occupational Therapist will be a key member of the specialist multi-disciplinary team within the Haringey Integrated Transitions Service. They will assess and deliver outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. Deliver a high-quality service aimed at ensuring best outcomes and enabling CYP to succeed as they make their transition to adulthood.

About the Team

The Haringey Integrated Transitions Service: Steps to Adulthood is a new multi-disciplinary initiative supporting children/young people with mild to moderate mental health needs as they transition into adulthood. It bridges the gap between child and adult services by providing early intervention, continuity of care, and tailored support.
Mental health professionals will join an established team of social workers to work collaboratively with children/young people, families, and schools, delivering evidence-based interventions and promoting emotional wellbeing.
This service is designed to empower young people, enhance support networks, and improve long-term outcomes through an integrated, strengths based approach.

About You

You are a qualified Occupational Therapist with a Diploma or BSc in Occupational Therapy and current HCPC registration. You bring essential experience in conducting assessments and interventions across diverse clinical settings, with young people. You have a highly developed specialist knowledge of mental health and a solid understanding of capacity and care issues. You are confident in managing risk and identifying potential risks to service users. Your communication skills enable you to consult effectively with a wide range of service users and professionals, and you are adept at presenting information and producing clear, written reports.

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 up to 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 end 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 you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk