About this role
Job summary
The Older Adults South Home Treatment Team (HTT) is a multidisciplinary team that provides care and treatment to older adults over the age of 70, or with a diagnosis of dementia, who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Support is provided in their own home as an alternative to hospital admission.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Occupational Therapist will be to undertake comprehensive functional assessments to establish service users' level of function and motivation in attending to activities of daily living. The OT will recommend aids, adaptations, sensory support, and other strategies to promote function, independence and wellbeing.
In addition, the post holder will undertake generic mental health assessments, examinations, and follow up visits. As a Clinical Specialist, the post holder will support service user flow through autonomous decision making when assessing acutely unwell service users at risk of a hospital admission and determining whether home treatment is a safe alternative.
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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
- 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.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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 the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oCurrent HCPC registration.
- oEvidence of further post-registration relevant training/ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice e.g. dementia/frailty.
Desirable
- oSensory Integration training.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- oAbility to work autonomously.
- oCompetent 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.
- oDemonstrate experience of adaptability to change.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- oMinimum of 1 years post graduate experience.
- oExperience of working in a senior specialist capacity with people living with mental illness or dementia in a community or inpatient setting.
- oExperience of working with family members and carers of individuals with mental illness, age-related frailty, and/or dementia.
- oExperience of liaising and working with other agencies and carers.
- oDemonstrate a clear understanding of own role and that of others within the multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- oExperience of working in a mental health/crisis team.
- oExperience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students.
- oExperience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool including the use of MOHO specific outcome measures.
- oExperience of service improvement/Quality Improvement and willingness to participate in.
Demonstration of our values
Essential
- oAbility to provide clear examples of how they have demonstrated the core values in their previous work experience.
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
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Blenheim Court
Unit 8-10 Blenheim Court, 62 Brewery Road
Islington, London
N7 9NY
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)