B5 to 6 Development Role Occupational Therapist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Greater London is seeking a dedicated Occupational Therapist for their Brent Mental Health Inpatient Service. This role focuses on providing individualized therapy and conducting assessments to enhance patient recovery. The successful candidate will be engaged in ongoing professional development and supported by experienced colleagues in a collaborative environment. This is a full-time role offering flexibility to support staff wellbeing and encourages personal development through specialized training opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive internal training

Support for professional development

Strong mentorship and supervision

Qualifications

• Committed to working in mental health environments.
• Willing to engage in professional development and training.
• Experience with evidence-based practice is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide occupational therapy services, individual and group work.
• Conduct assessments, interventions, and evaluations.
• Support service users to improve their quality of life.

Skills

Passion for occupational therapy

Ability to work within recovery principles

Self-motivated

Education

Relevant degree in Occupational Therapy

Tools

MOHO assessment tool

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has opened up for a B5 to 6 Development role Occupational Therapist to join our Brent Mental Health Inpatient Service. We will provide you with the opportunities to develop your skills, depending on your needs and goals. We are keen for people to develop in their area of interest to motivate and enrich our team. There is also the support of a broad and experienced senior MDT.

We are looking for people who are passionate about occupational therapy and want the opportunity to focus on their clinical OT skills, and who have ideas to grow and develop the occupational therapy provision within inpatient services. Once in post you will be afforded the time and space to engage in specialised training and development opportunities to help you become a more enhanced practitioner.

We adhere to the belief that it is better to grow and develop our own staff; this is demonstrated in the fact that 92% of our senior colleagues were supported and promoted in-house.

The team serves the diverse and vibrant population of Brent, named London Borough of Culture 2020 and ‘Council of the Year’ at the LGC Awards 2020. The team works flexibly / compressed hours to allow for OT provision to meet the needs of the service users throughout their day and find it also maintains staff wellbeing by providing more time to focus on their own interests and needs outside of work.

Hours are : 3 days working : 8-6.30, 1 day working 8-4, 1 day non working day.

Main duties of the job

Occupational therapists hold a key role within the Inpatient Team providing occupational therapy service and expertise; which 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 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.

The role requires integrated 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.

You would need to be committed to working within recovery principles. The successful applicant will be self‑motivated with a desire to work in mental health, and willing to learn and grow within the team.

This post receives supervision from Senior OTs in the team and in addition there is a great support network working alongside other OTs in the borough and across the trust. Opportunities for training, reflective practice, case formulation using Trauma Informed Approaches, skill sharing and several other projects are available ongoingly.

Working for our organisation

OT's in CNWL are very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure & this includes an AHP director, Trust-wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs.>\

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R&D strategy, R&D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. 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. This ensures all our OTs reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and EBP is made possible by our strong links with local universities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Vaccination

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.

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