About this role
Job summary
*** Previous applicants need not apply ***
The Occupational Therapist (OT) will be responsible for the delivery and review of the occupational therapy services across the Anxiety, Depression, Affective Disorders, Personality Disorders and Trauma (ADAPT) pathway, ensuring the occupational needs of the service users are addressed.
Working closely with the multi-disciplinary team, the postholder will provide specialist occupational assessments and interventions to promote meaningful engagement, independence and social inclusion. This will include delivering group based interventions to support recovery.
You will coordinate care for a small, defined caseload within the ADAPT service. and contribute to step-down planning to support service users' discharge to primary care services. As a clinical specialist OT, the postholder will offer clinical supervision and support service improvement initiatives as required.
Main duties of the job
The post offers the opportunity to develop your clinical leadership skills, by supporting the clinical lead with quality improvement initiatives and clinical leadership roles, You will be expected to develop and review the occupational therapy offer within the ADAPT service, ensuring a clear OT pathway is embedded in the team.
Your clinical role will be embedded in the ADAPT West team where you will be responsible for carrying out skilled assessments and delivering interventions across occupational domains. You will also be required to take on the role of lead healthcare professional for a small group of complex service users.
In applying occupational therapy models you will work from an evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. You will also contribute to delivering group interventions as required.
You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as a range of other agencies. You will also be responsible for providing supervision for staff within the team, contributing to the management of the referral system and assisting the team manager with quality improvement and other specific clinical tasks.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care
Job description Job responsibilities
To manage a clinical caseload To work as a member of the MDT To lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to: -Self care
-Work
-Leisure
To Care co-ordinate a small generic caseload. Maximum percentage of role as care co-ordinator is 30%. To lead on service development To lead/participate in research/audit activities. Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans. To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT To work independently without direct supervision To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions for the client group. To provide clinical support and leadership for junior staff, and OT students on fieldwork placement To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service To undertake identified generic responsibilities for an agreed percentage of time. To follow an agreed Job Plan To work with clients who have complex needs and challenging behaviour. To adhere to Trusts requirements for management of violence training relevant to clinical area
Person Specification
Experience Essential
6 years post registration experience as an OT including a minimum of 2 years as a senior/band 6 practitioner within a relevant mental health setting
Experience Essential
Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting social inclusion
Skills Essential
Supervisory experience of junior staff and students
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 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Beckenham Beacon
379 Croydon Road
Beckenham
BR3 3QL
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)