Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

About the location:

You will be based at Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD, or at Southbrook road where the neighbourhood 4 team also have their base.

About the team

This is an exciting development in Mental Health Service provision in Lewisham and an opportunity to work across the borough promoting the group programme and occupationally focussed interventions. The service aims to provide proactive, strength-based care for service users experiencing mental health problems in a primary care setting using a stepped care model.

The Mental Health Teams provide care and support to service users who require a level of care above that available through general medical services and also secondary care mental health intervention.

The Primary Mental Health role incorporates interventions around social prescribing and care navigation, drawing on the expertise of third sector partner providers. In addition to Occupational Therapy, the team comprises housing and welfare support, peers support, nurses, social workers, consultant psychiatrist.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Occupational Therapist;

Desirable

• Post-graduate training relevant to Mental Health

Experience

Essential

• Significant clinical experience including individual and group work
• Experience of advising and supporting /supervising junior staff and students

Desirable

• Working with mental health service users (pre or post qualification)

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management
• High level understanding of Mental Health disorders and treatment models
• Applied knowledge of legislation relevant to Mental Health and Specialist practice where appropriate
• Applied knowledge of the principles of CPA (Care Programme Approach)

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions and outcome measures, relevant to client group
• A sound understanding the dynamics of a team and have the ability to work effectively within that

Other

Essential

• Commitment to student supervision
• Commitment to lifelong learning

Desirable

• Open to new ideas and awareness of general issues that might have relevance to service users involvement

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD

Amersham Vale

Deptford

SE14 6LD

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)