Clinical Occupational Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our Greenwich based Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement service (CMHRES).

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative professional who has experience of working with individuals with mental health problems and fully understands the rehabilitation, enablement and recovery models of evidence based clinical practice.

This team focuses on the rehabilitation needs of service users who have complex mental health issues and require intensive support to promote social inclusion and facilitate greater independence.

This service aims to enable Service Users to develop the right skills to improve their quality of life through independent living and effective management of their mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

The postholder should have an in-depth knowledge of OT interventions for the client group and have an interest in developing evidenced based OT practice and establishing standards of practice. You will also contribute to the planning, development and ongoing evaluation of OT services and take a supervisory role with junior support staff within the team with a focus on their professional development and skill enhancement.

Excellent communication skills will be imperative. It will be essential to have good organisational skills and be responsible for a defined caseload of service users who have complex mental health and rehabilitation needs in addition to providing a specific OT service, offering assessment, intervention and advice to the multi-disciplinary team. Effective and efficient liaison with other teams and agencies will be vital to ensure collaborative working for the benefit of service users.

The main aim of the Team is to focus on rehabilitation, engagement, relapse prevention and enablement to optimise the service users' ability to live independently and enjoy a good quality of life.

You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as working with a range of other agencies. The Oxleas Occupational Therapy Service is committed to the continuing professional development (CPD) of its staff. A well-developed supervision structure, CPD activities, and a variety of training opportunities underpin this.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're
We Listen
We Care

Date posted

22 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£40,701 to £48,054 a year pro rata p.a inc.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

277-5986929-CMH

Job locations

The Heights

68 The Heights

Charlton

SE7 8JH

Job description

Job responsibilities

To manage a clinical caseload of identified Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement service users with complex needs.
To work as a member of a clinical multi-disciplinary team.
To work independently as a lone practitioner within the multi-disciplinary team.
To support the development of evidence-based OT practice within Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement services.
To provided assessment and interventions related to:

Social Inclusion activities.

ADL.

Occupational roles and activity.

To feed into the development of standards of practice within Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement Services.
To regularly oversee the work of support workers and supervise OT students on practice placement.
To contribute to service development
To participate in research/audit activities
Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
To work independently without direct supervision
To follow an agreed job plan

Job description

Job responsibilities

To manage a clinical caseload of identified Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement service users with complex needs.
To work as a member of a clinical multi-disciplinary team.
To work independently as a lone practitioner within the multi-disciplinary team.
To support the development of evidence-based OT practice within Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement services.
To provided assessment and interventions related to:

Social Inclusion activities.

ADL.

Occupational roles and activity.

To feed into the development of standards of practice within Community Mental Health Rehabilitation & Enablement Services.
To regularly oversee the work of support workers and supervise OT students on practice placement.
To contribute to service development
To participate in research/audit activities
Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
To work independently without direct supervision
To follow an agreed job plan

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

Are you registered with the HCPC ?
Do you hold a relevant degree or graduate diploma as required by Person Specification ?
Post registration experience as an OT including a minimum of 2 years mental health experience

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

Are you registered with the HCPC ?
Do you hold a relevant degree or graduate diploma as required by Person Specification ?
Post registration experience as an OT including a minimum of 2 years mental health experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).