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About the Role
Camden has created a new Principal Adults Occupational Therapist role, offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced OT leader to shape and influence Occupational Therapy and the wider Adult Social Care offer. As Camden’s principal professional OT lead, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership to our Occupational Therapy service, championing excellent, innovative, and strengths-based practice that starts with what matters to people, builds on their strengths and supports residents to live independent and fulfilling lives. You will play a key role in shaping how Occupational Therapy contributes to Camden’s What Matters approach, working alongside social workers, health colleagues and wider partners to ensure strengths-based practice is embedded across assessments, interventions, and decision-making. You will help develop approaches that maximise independence, build resilience and make the best use of people’s strengths, networks, communities and resources. Leading and driving service innovation at the front door of adult social care and a team of Occupational Therapists and Advanced Practitioners, you will champion professional excellence, and innovative practice across adult social care. You will work collaboratively across the Council and with Health, Housing and partners across Northwest Central London to influence practice, develop innovative solutions and improve outcomes for residents. This is a genuinely new and influential role. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of the service while contributing to the continued development of a modern, collaborative, and strengths-based Adult Social Care service in Camden. Come and help us build a future where Occupational Therapy enables people, strengthens communities and helps everyone thrive in Camden.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and clinical leadership to the Occupational Therapy service.
- Champion excellent, innovative, and strengths-based practice.
- Shape how Occupational Therapy contributes to Camden’s What Matters approach.
- Work with social workers, health colleagues, and partners to embed strengths-based practice.
- Develop approaches that maximize independence, build resilience, and utilize strengths, networks, communities, and resources.
- Lead and drive service innovation at the front door of adult social care.
- Lead a team of Occupational Therapists and Advanced Practitioners.
- Champion professional excellence and innovative practice across adult social care.
- Collaborate across the Council and with Health, Housing, and partners to influence practice and develop innovative solutions.
Requirements
- Fully qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration.
- Substantial post-qualification experience within a statutory adult social care or health setting.
- Experience undertaking complex assessments, risk assessment and management, care and support planning.
- Experience working with adults with diverse and often complex needs.
- Significant expertise in adult social care.
- Strong professional leadership capabilities.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to drive service improvement, enhance performance, and promote a culture of excellence.
- Comprehensive understanding of relevant national policy, legislation, research, and emerging best practice.
- Ability to translate knowledge into innovative approaches and meaningful service developments.
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.
Skills
- Occupational Therapy
- Adult Social Care
- Strengths-based practice
- Clinical leadership
- Strategic leadership
- Service innovation
- Professional excellence
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Risk assessment and management
- Care and support planning
- Complex assessment
- Problem-solving
- Service improvement
- Performance enhancement
- Policy interpretation
- Legislation interpretation
- Research interpretation
- Best practice implementation
Location
- 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Part Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
- Experienced OT leader
- Substantial post-qualification experience
- Significant expertise in adult social care
Education Level
- Fully qualified Occupational Therapist
Salary/Compensations
- £72,746
Benefits
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working opportunities
- Interest free loans
- Access to staff networks
- Career development and training
- Wellbeing support and activities
About the Company
- Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.
Equal Opportunity
- At Camden, we want every colleague to feel they belong and can thrive. We welcome applications from all parts of our community, and particularly encourage people from Black, Asian and Other Ethnic Heritage communities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled and neurodiverse people, survivors of domestic abuse, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds or with care experience. We know that different voices and perspectives make us stronger, and we are committed to providing the support, adjustments and flexibility people need to succeed.
- Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
- Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.