Occupational Therapist - Adult Eating Disorders

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Occupational Therapist to join our specialist Eating Disorders Day Services team at the Maudsley Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work within an OT-led, highly structured programme that supports adults with complex eating disorder presentations to regain health, rebuild functional skills, and reconnect with meaningful roles and routines. In this role, you will be central to shaping the therapeutic structure of the Day Service - delivering occupation-focused interventions, facilitating groups, and supporting service users through graded, real-life challenges that promote independence and recovery. You will hold your own caseload within a collaborative and supportive multidisciplinary environment, where psychological, medical, nursing, dietetic and OT perspectives work in close partnership. You will also contribute to the wider eating disorders pathway, offering flexible and responsive OT input across settings to support continuity of care. This is a dynamic post that offers opportunities for leadership, programme co-ordination, service development and professional growth within a highly specialist field. Whether you already have experience in eating disorders or are keen to develop specialist skills within a structured and well-supported team, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to make a tangible difference in the lives of adults striving for meaningful, sustainable recovery.,

• Provide specialist, occupation-focused assessment and intervention for adults attending the Eating Disorders Day Service, using a person-centred and recovery-oriented approach.
• Hold a defined caseload, delivering both individual and group interventions that support functional skill development, engagement in meaningful activity, and graded re-integration into daily routines.
• Contribute to the daily structure and therapeutic rhythm of the Day Service, helping maintain a consistent, safe and supportive environment for service users.
• Offer therapeutic meal support from an occupational perspective, promoting independence, reducing avoidance behaviours, and supporting the development of sustainable eating routines.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to shared formulations, care plans and clinical decision-making.
• Monitor progress using appropriate outcome measures and adapt interventions in response to service user need, risk, and engagement.
• Deliver context-based interventions within the service and in community settings where appropriate to support real-world functional change.
• Provide supervision, contribute to the learning of students and junior staff, and support quality improvement initiatives within the service.
• Work flexibly across the eating disorder pathway as required to support continuity of care and ensure an occupation-focused perspective is maintained throughout treatment.
  
  Our Eating Disorders Day Service is an OT-led, highly structured therapeutic environment that supports adults with moderate to severe eating disorders to make meaningful and sustained changes in their everyday lives. We pride ourselves on being a compassionate, recovery-focused team where Occupational Therapy plays a central and valued role in shaping the programme.
You will be joining a service that places collaboration, consistency and therapeutic structure at the heart of everything we do. The team works closely together each day to create a safe, contained and supportive space where service users can engage in intensive therapeutic activity, build functional skills, and work towards goals that reflect what recovery means to them. We are a multidisciplinary team with strong professional respect and shared decision-making, where OT perspectives are actively sought, integrated and championed. You can expect high levels of peer support, regular clinical supervision, and opportunities to deepen your specialist skills within a service that values professional development and reflective practice. Working within the Day Service offers the chance to be part of a team that is innovative, committed to high-quality care, and continually developing the programme in response to service user feedback and emerging evidence. It is a role where your creativity, professional identity and clinical reasoning will be genuinely valued--and where you can make a visible difference every day.