Band 6 Rotational Occupational Therapist

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Band 6 Rotational Occupational Therapist, where you will deliver exceptional mental health care across various clinical rotations. This role involves managing diverse patient cases, applying advanced clinical reasoning, and offering training and supervision to junior staff, contributing to a supportive team environment focused on improving local healthcare services.

Benefits

Flexible working

Access to in-house training opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in inpatient mental health setting.
• Supervising staff and students is essential.
• Familiarity with standardised assessments.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat a diverse caseload of patients.
• Manage own caseload and supervise junior staff.
• Develop comprehensive discharge plans with multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Clinical reasoning

Education

BSc/MSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Job description

Main area Mental Health, Inpatient, Acute Medicine, Neurology Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (In some rotations core hours worked over 7 days on a rota system.) Job ref 455-NLFT-0176

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Highgate Mental Health Centre Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 Per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2025 23:59

Band 6 Rotational Occupational Therapist

Band 6

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

The vacancy is for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the inter-trust mixed Band 6 OT rotation in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington. Previous experience of working in the acute setting is desirable and prior experience/a working knowledge of the UK healthcare system.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, be organised and ready to face the challenge of working in a fast paced environment.

Rotations are 6 monthly in clinical areas, which include:

• Acute General Medicine - Whittington Health NHS Trust
• Care of Older People/Neurology - Whittington Health NHS Trust
• Rapid Assessment and Early Discharge - Whittington Health NHS Trust
• Orthopaedics - Whittington Health NHS Trust
• Hand Therapy - Whittington Health NHS Trust
• Community Rehabilitation - Whittington Health NHS Trust
• Cognitive Impairment, Older Adults Mental Health – North London NHS Foundation Trust

If you are an existing Band 5 looking to develop as a senior therapist then this is an excellent opportunity to develop in a well supported setting. We are a friendly and supportive team. We offer access to in house training opportunities, and external training to promote your learning and skill development.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to perform advanced Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions and use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

You will be responsible for managing your own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision. You will supervise, educate and assess Occupational Therapy students, assistants and Band 5 Grade Occupational Therapists and provide specialised advice to other health care professionals in the specific clinical area.

You will be responsible for undertaking activities which contribute to own continuing professional development which may include, audit, evidence-based learning and research projects to further own and teams’ clinical practice.

You will be encouraged to make recommendations to the Clinical Lead/Manager of the service for changes to practice by the team and this may lead on the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to development of service protocols.

Working for our organisation

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:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work as an autonomous practitioner, to assess and treat own caseload of patients, including those with complex presentations. In each rotation treatment decisions will be underpinned by specialist knowledge gained from post graduate study of evidence-based treatments and from previous experience.

· To quickly and accurately screen, establish priority for patient referrals for Occupational Therapy intervention some of which maybe complex and require a multi-disciplinary approach.

· To carry out an assessment of patients, including those with complex presentations. Draw on a wide range of information sources and use clinical reasoning skills to determine an accurate diagnosis. To identify an appropriate Occupational Therapy care plan from treatment options available.

· To formulate and deliver occupational therapy treatment programmes in a variety of settings. Settings include: hospital, community, and patients’ home, home visits, as part of a team and as a sole practitioner.

· To work collaboratively to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and to facilitate hospital discharge in order to minimize hospital stays.

· To develop comprehensive discharge plans in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team members.

· To make recommendations to support a patient’s discharge including care support and rehabilitation opportunities.

· Undertake referrals to internal and external services when deemed appropriate/of benefit to the support or progression of the patient. e.g. community rehabilitation, social services, voluntary agencies.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Education

• HCPC registration
• BSC/MSc/Diploma in Occupational therapy

Knowledge

• Understanding of mental health law and diagnoses
• Experience of working in an in-patient mental health setting
• Experience in supervising staff and students
• experience of using standardised assessment
• Training in or experience of running QI project
• Experience of using HR processes

Skills

• Experience in using IT programmes effectively

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.