Occupational Therapist; Principal Advisor

Salary £52,194 - £57,402 per annum (Career Graded)

Job profile for Occupational Therapist (Principal Advisor)

02/10/2026 Occupational Therapist (Principal Advisor)

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Salary £52,194 - £57,402 per annum (Career Graded) Package Permanent, Full-Time, 36 hours per week. Date posted 21/08/2026 Job reference R0007402 Attachments Role Profile
- Occpational Therapist (Principal Advisor).pdf

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

Hounslow is expanding and evolving its Specialist Practice & Advice Service, and we are looking for passionate and motivated Occupational Therapists to join us at an exciting time of transformation.

The therapy team is part of a newly developing multi-disciplinary service
- Specialist Practice & Advice - bringing together Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Portage, Early Years practitioners, and specialist teachers. This creates rich opportunities for integrated work focussed on inclusive practice and early intervention, that goes beyond traditional models of Occupational Therapy services.

• Provide and co-ordinate specialist advice, consultation and support to ensure children and young people are fully included and supported.
• Develop and use innovative ways of working to support children and young people across universal, targeted and specialist levels, including supporting delivery of the DfE “Experts at Hand” initiative.
• Develop skills across a wide range of ages and settings, including early years, primary, and secondary settings.
• Work closely with schools and settings to develop early intervention approaches.
• Contribute to assessment, consultation, and wider strategic work.
• Deliver training, modelling and coaching to up-skill the wider workforce and build capacity.
• Build strong…