About this role
Job summary
Our satisfying and rewarding roles, sit within the Community Service Line, which includes all community based mental health teams, such as our Integrated Recovery Hubs, Recovery and Support Teams and Early Intervention services. Our teams are expanding with new and exciting roles following a period of Transformation, resulting in new opportunities for Occupational Therapists (OTs) to work as pure OTs, fully using their innovation and creativity, to support clients with complex mental health needs to recover and step down from Mental Health Services.
We are using the Model of Human Occupation to provide standardised assessments. We have a manualised evidenced based treatment called GLOW (Graduated Living Outside of the Ward), to provide an individualised intervention and have developed an 8-week group intervention based on Recovery Through Activity, to promote recovery goals, with the focus of stepping down from services and reconnecting our clients with community resources. We are committed to ensuring that all our community OTs receive basic training in Sensory Profiling, so that we can support clients with additional sensory needs.
Main duties of the job
The post involves working closely with our colleagues in the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), in particular, working with Recovery Support Workers and Employment Specialists, with whom we have a close professional relationship, invested in supporting clients with their occupational goals. We are committed to offering an excellent service and actively promote Occupational Therapy within the teams.
The OT will also promote working with our partners in the Involvement Team, to encourage service users and carers to feel supported and involved in the development with our services, as well as developing relationships with wider and external community organisations, such as social prescribers and peer support workers.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our location:
This post will be based at Tolworth
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
Job description Job responsibilities
To provide Occupational Therapy for team clients, with a maximum of one day duty cover for the team once every two weeks.o manage an OT caseload of clients with complex needs, using evidence based /client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To take responsibility for completing standardised assessments using The Model of Human Occupation and other frameworks as agreed by the Therapy Leads.
To offer manualised interventions, both group and individual for example, GLOW (Graduated Living Outside of the Ward) and IPEL (Increasing Participation in Everyday Life) to help support step down of services for clients and preparation for discharge.
To offer Sensory Profiling/interventions for clients with sensory challenges.
To offer advice to the team and promote access and reasonable adjustments for Service Users with sensory challenges wishing to use our services.
To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of OT services within the Community Team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
To engage with the OT referrals process, identifying and prioritising the need for OT specific interventions.
To provide leadership to junior staff through supervision and appraisal.
To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement (expected standard is two students per year).
To provide professional leadership and clinical supervision to the Recovery Support Workers and engage in co-working pathways.
To promote Recovery and Social Inclusion, working alongside the Involvement Team to actively promote service-user engagement and co-production.
To work with the Employment Specialist to enhance the vocational pathway.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust OT Service
To contribute to streamline working from admission to discharge in keeping with the principles in the Adult Services Recovery Care pathway.
To advocate for and promote the contribution of occupational therapy as a valuable resource with helping people to manage the impact of their symptoms on their ability to cope with daily occupations.
To act as the designated Disability Champion leading the multi-disciplinary team in Disability Equality matters within the service and other areas as required.
Person Specification
Education, Training & Qualifications Essential
Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy Registration to practice in the UK Evidence of post registration training relevant to mental health practice Training in the theory and application of the model of human occupation within the first 4 months of appointment
Desirable
Practice placement educators course within one year of appointment Apple registration
Experience Essential
Experience of carrying a caseload in a mental health setting Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Experience of maintaining a written record of continual professional development Experience of individual and groupwork Experience of writing specialist occupational therapy reports Experience of participating in a service development project
Desirable
Experience of working in a range of mental health settings Experience of supervising junior staff Successful completion of preceptorship Experience of being a practice placement educator Experience of using mental health services as a service user, or carer, relative, friend of a service user.
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 South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address Tolworth Hospital
Red Lion Road
Surbiton
KT6 7QU
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)