Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent and enthusiastic Occupational Therapistto provide a highly specialist service for children and young people in Bexley CAMHS. You will work with children and young people up to 18 years of age and their families/carers, presenting with significant and enduring mental health difficulties and/or learning disabilities & neurodevelopmental needs (LDND).
Bexley CAMHS has recently gone through a service transformation, underpinned by the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Bexley.
Bexley CAMHS is a friendly, busy, and thriving CYP IAPT service, regarded as an accessible and effective service. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. The Trust has recently been rated as Good by the CQC and has a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework. Clinical supervision will be provided by experienced supervisors within the discipline.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage a complex caseload, offering specialist clinical interventions, working as care coordinator within a multi-disciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, art therapists, nurses, family therapists and psychotherapists, in close partnership with partner agencies. The service will be provided flexibly and include outreach work. You will also provide specialist advice and support to professional colleagues both internal and external to the Trust.
The post holder will be a registered Occupational Therapist with extensive post registration experience within a mental health setting; It is important that you can show your interest and willingness to work with children with significant mental health and LDND needs. You will need to have excellent therapeutic skills and be responsive and flexible in your approach to working with children and young people within Bexley CAMHS.
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 Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage a clinical caseload of young people experiencing significant mental health and LDND needs
To work as a member of the MDT
To lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice
To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to:
Self care
Education, training, or employment
Leisure
To participate in the development of the OT service within the team
To lead/participate in research/audit activities.
To supervise the work of OT Technical instructors and OT students on fieldwork placement
To formulate, contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans.
To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
To work collaboratively with colleagues in the MDT in managing risk in young people within the service
To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions for the client group.
To provide leadership for junior staff
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service
To undertake identified generic responsibilities as required.
To undertake specialist mental health assessments for young people who present with emergency mental health needs such as those following episodes of deliberate self harm.
To work within safeguarding & risk management guidelines and the social inclusion agenda
To conduct risk assessments as part of a Duty rota system along with colleagues.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage a clinical caseload of young people experiencing significant mental health and LDND needs
To work as a member of the MDT
To lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice
To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to:
Self care
Education, training, or employment
Leisure
To participate in the development of the OT service within the team
To lead/participate in research/audit activities.
To supervise the work of OT Technical instructors and OT students on fieldwork placement
To formulate, contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans.
To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
To work collaboratively with colleagues in the MDT in managing risk in young people within the service
To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions for the client group.
To provide leadership for junior staff
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service
To undertake identified generic responsibilities as required.
To undertake specialist mental health assessments for young people who present with emergency mental health needs such as those following episodes of deliberate self harm.
To work within safeguarding & risk management guidelines and the social inclusion agenda
To conduct risk assessments as part of a Duty rota system along with colleagues.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience (3 years +) in Occupational Therapist role
- Applying and interpreting standardised OT assessments
- Supervisory experience of junior staff and students
Desirable
- Experience in a CAMHS setting
- Experience of working with people with a Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Skills
Essential
- Robust skills in assessment, management and intervention, including risk
- Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to clinical area.
- Experience of working in a MDT, and contributing to the care of patients.
Desirable
- Audit and research skills, relevant to role
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree in OT
- UK HCPC registered
- Further post-graduate training
Desirable
- Fieldwork Educator trained
- Sensory Integration qualification
- Interest in undertaking further relevant studies, linked to service need
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience (3 years +) in Occupational Therapist role
- Applying and interpreting standardised OT assessments
- Supervisory experience of junior staff and students
Desirable
- Experience in a CAMHS setting
- Experience of working with people with a Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Skills
Essential
- Robust skills in assessment, management and intervention, including risk
- Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to clinical area.
- Experience of working in a MDT, and contributing to the care of patients.
Desirable
- Audit and research skills, relevant to role
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree in OT
- UK HCPC registered
- Further post-graduate training
Desirable
- Fieldwork Educator trained
- Sensory Integration qualification
- Interest in undertaking further relevant studies, linked to service need
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
