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South West London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; City Of London; Sur place; GBP 38 000 - 46 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust in London is seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the North East Wandsworth Integrated Recovery Team at Trinity Building, Springfield Hospital, Tooting.

The role includes leading OT clinical work with complex cases, supervising students, and developing community OT services to help clients recover and step down from mental health services.

Responsabilités

• Provide Occupational Therapy for team clients, with limited duty cover (one day every two weeks).
• Manage an OT caseload of clients with complex needs using evidence-based, client-centred principles.
• Complete standardised assessments using The Model of Human Occupation and other agreed frameworks.
• Offer manualised group and individual interventions to support discharge planning.
• Offer Sensory Profiling and interventions for clients with sensory challenges.
• Advise the team on access and reasonable adjustments for sensory needs.
• Engage in planning, development and evaluation of OT services within the Community Team.
• Prioritise OT referrals and identify required interventions.
• Provide supervision to junior staff and oversee practice placements (two students per year).
• Collaborate with partners to involve service users and carers in service development.

Description du poste

North East Wandsworth Integrated Recovery Team is based at Trinity Building, Springfield Hospital, Tooting. We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team. We will also consider Band 5's who have completed their Preceptorship and are looking at transition to a Band 6 role through our Preceptorship Plus programme.

This satisfying and rewarding role sits within our 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 post Transformation, and this is providing an environment in which Occupational Therapists (OTs), can at last, fully use their innovation and creativity to support clients with complex mental health needs to recover and step down from Mental Health Services.

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 and their experiences, as well as developing relationships with wider and external community organisations, such as social prescribers and peer support workers

Responsibilities

• To provide Occupational Therapy for team clients, with a maximum of one day duty cover for the team once every two weeks.
• To 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)., Unless expressly stated in the job advert the 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

Clinical

• To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of disability on occupational performance and provide training and advice on lifestyles changes and adaptations to the client's social and physical environment.
• To promote social inclusion and physical and mental well-being using evidence-based practice. This is underpinned by the principles of hope and recovery, health promotion and staying well.
• To independently manage an OT clinical caseload of service users with complex mental health needs, demonstrating clinical professional judgement and liaising closely with team manager where relevant.

Communication

• To establish and maintain effective communication networks with users and carers, team members, occupational therapy colleagues and other agencies.
• To communicate with people in a manner consistent with their culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.
• To work as a member of the inter-professional team, attending meetings and contributing to decisions with regard to the care and treatment of service users.

Documentation

• To ensure that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
• To provide specialist occupational therapy reports on a regular basis in line with professional guidance and relevant clinical pathways.

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.

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 of benefits 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.