Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist [Community]

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Full timePart time
Location: Erith
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Job offered by: NHS
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Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist [Community]

This post involves implementing specialist OT assessments and interventions as well as contributing to the development and delivery of the Occupational Therapy service and Group programme within Bexley locality. The post involves clinical leadership and supervision of the ADAPT OT staff including one full time Band 6 OT and one part time OT assistant who works across two teams. The post also involves some generic care co-ordination work alongside having an OT caseload. You will be expected to apply knowledge of specialist occupational therapy models, Occupational Therapy evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. The post offers the opportunity to develop clinical leadership skills and enhance the Occupational Therapy services across the ADAPT (Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorder and Trauma) pathway, ensuring the occupational needs of service users are addressed and providing an occupational therapy perspective on service delivery. You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as a range of other agencies. You will also be responsible for providing supervision for staff within the team, contributing to the management of the referral system and assisting the team managers with quality improvement and other specific clinical tasks. Main duties of the job

The Occupational Therapist will be responsible for the Care Co-ordination of a small specified caseload, within the Anxiety, Depression, Affective Disorders, Personality Disorders and Trauma (ADAPT). The postholder will also work closely with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), offering specialist occupational performance assessments and interventions, utilising a wide range of skills and experience to promote social inclusion opportunities. You will also contribute and consult on step down planning and facilitate transfer to primary care services wherever possible. In addition, as a clinical specialist OT, you will provide clinical supervision to junior staff and undertake delegated clinical tasks, as required. About us

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: We're Kind We Listen We Care Job responsibilities

To manage a clinical caseload To work as a member of the MDT To lead on the development of evidence based OT practice To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to self-care, work and leisure. To Care co-ordinate a small generic caseload. Maximum percentage of role as care co-ordinator is 30%. To lead on service development To lead/participate in research/audit activities Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT To work independently without direct supervision To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions for the client group To provide clinical support and leadership for junior staff, and OT students on fieldwork placement To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service To undertake identified generic responsibilities for an agreed percentage of time To follow an agreed Job Plan To work with clients who have complex needs and challenging behaviour To adhere to Trusts requirements for management of violence training relevant to clinical area Person Specification

Experience

6 years post registration experience as an OT including a minimum of 2 years as a senior/band 6 practitioner within a relevant mental health setting Experience

Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting social inclusion Skills

Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to clinical area. Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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