Occupational Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Foots Cray; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 46 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist to lead the adult autism OT service across both acute and community settings. You will deliver high-quality, evidence-based assessment and intervention as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The role involves managing a complex caseload, providing clinical supervision, and developing the OT service within the Directorate to demonstrate effectiveness in autism care.

Responsabilités

• Lead the clinical provision of OT services for adults with autism across acute and community settings.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload with a focus on risk management and crisis intervention.
• Ensure OT practice is evidence-based and compliant with professional guidance.
• Work as part of the autism MDT with service users, carers and families.
• Contribute to ASD assessments and provide specialist OT advice.
• Provide leadership to OT staff working with adults with autism.
• Represent OT in directorate level forums and management meetings.
• Contribute to development and evaluation of OT services and standards.
• Collaborate with other OT specialists across the Trust.

Description du poste

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to lead our adult autism services. You will lead the clinical provision of occupational therapy services within the autism acute support team and community autism service. You will be delivering high quality care as part of multi-disciplinary services. As part of the wider directorate you will have opportunities to link with other occupational therapists with clinical supervision provided from the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist.

• To actively support the Directorate Occupational Therapy Lead in the overall development of the OT service within the ALD Directorate to demonstrate the effectiveness of providing high-quality assessment and intervention to adults with Autism.
• To manage a complex clinical caseload, including positive risk taking and managing high risk/ crisis.
• To be responsible for ensuring clinical provision in the Adult Autism services is evidence based and is compliant with professional guidance.
• To actively support the Directorate Occupational Therapy lead in the overall development of the OT service within the ALD Directorate to demonstrate the effectiveness of providing high-quality assessment and intervention to adults with Autism.
• To manage a complex clinical caseload, including positive risk taking and managing high risk/ crisis.
• To be responsible for ensuring clinical provision in the Adult Autism services is evidence based and is compliant with professional guidance.
• To work as a member of the autism MDT, in partnership with others e.g. service users, carers, and relevant family members, in a variety of settings and alongside the Acute Care/inpatient services and the Community Mental Health Services, to provide person centred assessment, intervention and provide specialist OT advice.
• To contribute to the assessment of adults with suspected Autism Spectrum Disorder, as required.
• To work independently and without direct supervision
• To be an OT specialist and have an indepth knowledge of OT assessment and interventions for adults with autism
• To provide leadership to OT's working with adults with autism
• To represent Occupational Therapy at a Directorate Level in relevant forums and management meetings
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service
• To develop, monitor and evaluate t standards for OT practice within the services.
• To contribute to implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects/audit/research that develop the clinical effectiveness of OT provision for autistic adults, sharing findings and statistical information as required in a timely manner.
• To work closely with other OT clinical specialists across the Trust

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values