Job summary
The Acute Occupational Therapy Inpatient Team provides assessment and treatment programmes to clients on the three Adults inpatient wards (Sunflower, Tulip and Daisy). The Team provides both Specialist Therapy assessments to clients and offers a needs led, client centred individual and group-based Activity and Therapy Programme on the wards and in the therapy department which is located a few yards off the wards.
Clients on the inpatient wards present with acute or enduring mental health symptoms, and often have other co-existing diagnoses which may include a range of physical diagnoses. Some clients have been detained under the Mental Health Act and may need skilled support in integrating back in the community following admission to hospital.
The therapy role within the team often involves functional assessments and providing professional advice which actively informs the teams risk assessments and discharge plans. The team works collaboratively with the wards' Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
The Team Leader provides a professional leadership role to members of the Occupational Therapy Inpatient Team to ensure that the team works in partnership with other disciplines to provide an integrated Occupational Therapy service to the inpatients on the 3 adult wards.
Main duties of the job
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About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Further relevant training or study (e.g. Sensory Integration training)
Skills
Essential
- Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students
- Experience of carrying out functional assessments
- Experience in managing a small OT team made up of OTs and TIs.
- Effective teaching skills as appropriate to both students and staff groups.
- Effective written communication skills to include assessment and treatment documentation and formal clinical reports for MD team and outside agencies
Desirable
- Experience of working in in-patient and community environments
- Experience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation including the use of specific MOHO outcome measures
- Experience in contributing towards OT service development
- Ability to relate to people from varied social backgrounds
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post and knowledge of conditions
- Minimum 5 years relevant clinical postgraduate experience in professional field, including experience of working with adults with mental health and physical health problems
- Experience of working with people with challenging behaviour, potential risk factors and retractions this may pose on therapeutic process.
- Ability to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and clear clinical reasoning for O.T. interventions
- Experience of relating to people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds.
- Ability to manage clinical and managerial demands of time and resources.
- Ability to sustain demands of working with potentially challenging client group.
- Experience of working autonomously and being responsible for own practice and managing a varied workload including the ability to prioritise and problem solve.
Desirable
- Ability to relate to people from varied social backgrounds
- Experience of implementing service improvements
- Experience of organising and or managing events
- Experience of recruitment process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Further relevant training or study (e.g. Sensory Integration training)
Skills
Essential
- Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students
- Experience of carrying out functional assessments
- Experience in managing a small OT team made up of OTs and TIs.
- Effective teaching skills as appropriate to both students and staff groups.
- Effective written communication skills to include assessment and treatment documentation and formal clinical reports for MD team and outside agencies
Desirable
- Experience of working in in-patient and community environments
- Experience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation including the use of specific MOHO outcome measures
- Experience in contributing towards OT service development
- Ability to relate to people from varied social backgrounds
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post and knowledge of conditions
- Minimum 5 years relevant clinical postgraduate experience in professional field, including experience of working with adults with mental health and physical health problems
- Experience of working with people with challenging behaviour, potential risk factors and retractions this may pose on therapeutic process.
- Ability to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and clear clinical reasoning for O.T. interventions
- Experience of relating to people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds.
- Ability to manage clinical and managerial demands of time and resources.
- Ability to sustain demands of working with potentially challenging client group.
- Experience of working autonomously and being responsible for own practice and managing a varied workload including the ability to prioritise and problem solve.
Desirable
- Ability to relate to people from varied social backgrounds
- Experience of implementing service improvements
- Experience of organising and or managing events
- Experience of recruitment process.
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).
