Senior Occupational Therapist Community Mental Health
1 month ago
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work as a Senior Occupational Therapist in Adult Community Mental Health, providing a high-quality service to service users.
- To provide OT assessment and intervention for service users under the care of the team.
- To provide home assessments for adapted equipment, support recommendations and for accommodation needs.
- To provide evidence-based groupwork and one-to-one interventions.
- To provide a Key worker role for a designated number of clients with an occupational focus.
- To routinely complete Dialog +/ Risk assessments
- Familiar with MaST for caseload management
- To work within the multidisciplinary team and support the overall functioning of the team.
- To offer clinical placements to Occupational Therapy Students.
- To provide informal support and supervision to other staff as needed
- As a Key Worker, to be aware of service users' support packages; this will include retaining an overview of work by individuals from partner agencies.
- To participate in the St John's Wood PCN duty rota
Person specification
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Clear understanding of the OT role in community mental health
- Excellent communication skills
- 1:1 intervention experience
- Group work skills and experience
- Experience of home assessments and equipment provision.
- Risk assessment and management experience
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislation
- Ability to work autonomously, as well as part of an MDT
- Individual/group work skills.
- Ability to prioritise workload and use initiative
- Able to work creatively to engage patients
- Timely reporting and record keeping
- Recovery focused approach to service delivery.
- Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach that considers the needs of the whole person.
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
- To determine the impact of mental and physical conditions on service user's functional ability and undertake assessment/make recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.
- Good understanding of the application of risk assessment and risk management strategies which facilitates a patient's recovery.
- Good awareness of the principles of safeguarding and how to implement this in practice.
Desirable criteria
- Research and development
- Knowledge of the Model of Human Occupation.
- Completion of OT medication management training.
- To have completed the practice placement educators' course.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job.
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience working in mental health settings as an Occupational Therapist or transferable experience
- Experience in assessment and interventions related to physical healthcare needs
- Experience in using a range of standardised OT assessments
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of creating group protocols and facilitating groups
- Supervision of OT students and / or non-qualified staff
- Experience of working with service users presenting with a wide range of complex mental health conditions.
- Experience of delivering healthy lifestyle interventions.
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment.
- Experience of drafting group protocols and setting up / facilitating groups / group programme
- Experience of partnership working in promoting socially inclusive opportunities for patients.
- Experience in completing HONOS screening clustering tool / Risk Assessment Tools.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an adult mental health community team
- Experience in audit / research projects.
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registered Occupational Therapist.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification training in relevant mental health skills.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- JD and PS (PDF, 256.4KB)
- CNWL Staff Networks (PDF, 320.0KB)
- CNWL Values (PDF, 182.9KB)
- CNWL Reward and Wellbeing Handbook 2020 (PDF, 1.1MB)
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