Senior Occupational Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist with a strong interest in adult mental health to work on the acute ward's at St Charles MH Hospital. You would be joining a team of band 5 & band 6 Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy apprentices & activity co-ordinators led by our Band 7 Acute Lead OT's.

Occupational therapists hold a key role within the ward multidisciplinary team providing expertise to support clients on their mental health journey to discharge from the ward. This includes individual & group work, following the OT process. The trust has strong occupational therapy professional leadership (see below).

You will need to be familiar with evidence based assessment tools e.g. MOHO, to establish a baseline functional assessment from which recommendations can determine further on going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning.

The role requires integrated evidence based practice and skilful use of assessments & interventions in order to improve the service users' quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.

You would need to be able to apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and physical conditions; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service user's social and physical environment.

You will be self motivated and able to work to a high standard both autonomously and as part of a team.

The main duty of the job is toprovide clients and themultidisciplinaryteam(MDT)ontheTreatmentwardwithanoccupationaltherapy service and expertise; this will include individual and group work, assessment, intervention and evaluation in accordance with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics.

You will be using the Model of Human Occupationand otherevidence-basedassessment tools in order to establish a baseline functional assessment from which recommendations can determine further on-going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning.

You will be able to apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and physical conditions; providing training on and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service user's social and physical environment.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 1500 Therapists / AHP's in CNWL. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your dual skills.

CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession and therapies as a whole at all levels - both strategically and operationally.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession this enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. Our commitment to research, audit and evidence-based practice is made possible by our strong links with local universities and our CNWL AHP Research Network.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are a priority for us in CNWL we expect staff to be culturally competent, reflective and open to culturally diverse CPD opportunities. We are working hard support the recruitment and development of staff from all protected characteristics and welcome applications from any interested applicants.

Please see the attached job description for full details.

The main responsibilities are:

Toprovide themultidisciplinaryteam(MDT)ontheTreatmentwardwithanoccupationaltherapy service and expertise; this will include individual and group work, assessment, intervention and evaluation in accordance with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics.

SpecifictoassessmenttheOccupationalTherapist(OT)willutiliseMOHOand otherevidence-basedassessment tools in order to establish a baseline functional assessment from which recommendations can determine further on-going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning.

To establish links with other OT's in interfacing acute (for example HTT and community mental healthhubsandspecialistservices)toenableeffectivecontinuationofOccupationalTherapyinput if required.

Tomanageacaseloadofserviceuserswithcomplex,severeandenduringmentalhealthneeds;using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.

To provide the multidisciplinary team (MDT) on the Treatment ward with an occupational therapy service and expertise; this will include individual and group work, assessment, intervention and evaluation in accordance with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics.

Specific to assessment the Occupational Therapist (OT) will utilise MOHO and other evidence-based assessment tools in order to establish a baseline functional assessment from which recommendations can determine further on-going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning.

To establish links with other OT's in interfacing acute (for example HTT and community mental health hubs and specialist services) to enable effective continuation of Occupational Therapy input if required.

To manage a caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs; using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.

To integrate evidence-based practice and skilful use of assessments & interventions with personal recovery principles in order to improve the service users' quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.

To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and physical conditions; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service user's social and physical environment. This will include undertaking assessments and making recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.

To contribute to service development of Local & Trust wide OT services.

To provide leadership for junior / unqualified staff through supervision and appraisal as required and to be a resource for staff as required as one of the senior Occupational Therapists.

To act as fieldwork educator to students on practice placement.

To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and physical conditions; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service user's social and physical environment. This will include undertaking assessments and making recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.

Tocontributetoservice developmentofLocal&TrustwideOTservices.

Toprovide leadershipforjunior/unqualifiedstaffthroughsupervisionandappraisalasrequiredand to be a resource for staff as required as one of the senior Occupational Therapists.

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