Job summary
We are looking for a new person to join our vibrant and busy team working in acute mental health services. We have a new, well equipped sports hall and we are keen to expand our physical activity programme across the wards.
The post-holder will provide and oversee a group exercise programme with an emphasis on healthy lifestyles and use of exercise as a therapeutic intervention. The post-holder will also work alongside the therapy team to provide bespoke exercise plans and goal attainment work.
We are looking for someone from a sports science background with mental health clinical experience, or a physiotherapist or occupational therapist with exercise and mental health as a specialist interest.
Main duties of the job
- To oversee and provide the sports and physical activity programme with an emphasis on healthy lifestyle and movement across the inpatient service
- To actively involve service users in identifying their needs and goals as part of the multi-disciplinary team care plan. To provide prescription for exercise as appropriate.
- To carry out specialist group and individual interventions, individual or jointly with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, as appropriate.
- To use professional specific assessments and interventions, as appropriate, to support the service user's engagement in the exercise pathway.
- To maintain close relationships with third sector partners and develop further opportunities for joint working and developing pathways into the community.
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- 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
Please see job description and person specification for more information about this role and whether you meet the criteria for application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for more information about this role and whether you meet the criteria for application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy or Sports Science
- Current registration with HCPC or member of BACPR, CIMSPA, CEPUK or similar
- Evidence of training bespoke to mental health
Desirable
- Other coaching/personal trainer qualifications
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers and staff.
- Able to work with a variety of community partners and services effectively
- Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience working with people with complex mental health and physical health needs in a mental health setting.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and experience of evidence based best practice and research in working with service users with mental health issues
- Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff and carers.
- Demonstrate experience of running groups/ providing activity programmes and understanding of procedural and group processes involved.
Desirable
- Experience working across a range of older/ adult care settings
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy or Sports Science
- Current registration with HCPC or member of BACPR, CIMSPA, CEPUK or similar
- Evidence of training bespoke to mental health
Desirable
- Other coaching/personal trainer qualifications
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers and staff.
- Able to work with a variety of community partners and services effectively
- Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience working with people with complex mental health and physical health needs in a mental health setting.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and experience of evidence based best practice and research in working with service users with mental health issues
- Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff and carers.
- Demonstrate experience of running groups/ providing activity programmes and understanding of procedural and group processes involved.
Desirable
- Experience working across a range of older/ adult care settings
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).
