CTT Senior Occupational Therapist

1 month ago


Ilford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Band 7 - Senior Occupational Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Community Treatment Team which is an Urgent Community Response Team covering three boroughs.

This role is a superb opportunity for a forward-thinking and patient-focused senior OT. It would be suitable for an existing Band 7 looking to enhance their skills further, or an experienced Band 6 with demonstrable experience within community settings and looking to develop their skills within a Band 7 role.

The successful candidate will be expected to work within a multi-stakeholder MDT to deliver high quality care to a varied and complex caseload and have a strong commitment to developing self, others and the service. The role will suit someone who is able to work on their own initiative and keen to quickly become a key team player bringing ideas to the team.

If you are interested to work as part of a friendly, flexible team and develop your skills around service development in line with new models of care then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To plan and manage an appropriate personal caseload to ensure service needs and priorities are met Undertake comprehensive, clinically-reasoned assessments and devise person-specific treatment plans to enable more independence Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment for patients in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of treatment Use excellent communication skills to be an effective team member Lead on complex discharge planning for elderly patients with complex needs Take an active role in the support, training and supervision of senior rehabilitation assistants and students Actively participate in service development needs Support the service lead with projects relating to the improvement / evaluation of the team 

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High-Cost Area Supplement - London

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436).

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We can offer excellent work-life balance and benefits including:

Opportunity for service development and audit Regular supervision Protected CPD time NHS pension Close transport links into London Flexible working Agile working devices to support community-based working High cost area supplement of 15% Salary Sacrifice car scheme

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Practical essentials

Essential criteria

Car driver & licence IT skills (stated and shown) Easy to read statement and formulated well

Skills

Essential criteria

5 years experience in ED or community setting Experience in complex crisis patients Experience at supporting and leading a team

Desirable criteria

willingness to develop a service

Experience

Essential criteria

NHS experience Triage experience

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.



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