An exciting opportunity has arisen within Enfield's Mental Health Inpatient Services. We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate Occupational Therapist (OT) to Lead the inpatient therapy team and be part of a new clinical team in Cumbria Villa. Cumbria Villa is based at Chase farm hospital site and is a new step-down pathway from the acute inpatient wards, aiming to open on 1st October 2024.

The Band 7 OT will Lead and have line management responsibility to the inpatient therapy team in Enfield Mental health services Cumbria Villa, Somerset Villa (inpatient rehab ward), and oversee the OT provision in the Enfield community crisis team. They will also hold a caseload in Cumbria Villa for physical and mental health assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and pre and post discharge arrangements. They will lead and work in partnership with other disciplines to provide an integrated therapies service.The role may involve assessments in the patient's home and providing professional advice which actively informs the teams risk assessments and discharge plans utilising the MOHO model and other evidence- based assessment tools to establish a baseline functional assessment from which recommendations can determine further on-going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning.

Main duties of the job

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Dip. COT/ MSc OT/ BSc OT

Desirable

• Further relevant training or study (e.g. Sensory Integration training)

Skills

Essential

• Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students.
• Experience of carrying out functional assessments
• Experience in managing qualified and unqualified OT and AHP staff.
• Effective teaching skills as appropriate to both students and staff groups.
• Effective written communication skills to include assessment and treatment documentation and formal clinical reports for MD team and outside agencies

Desirable

• Experience of working in in-patient and community environments
• Experience in the use of the Model of Human Occupation including the use of specific MOHO outcome measures
• Experience in contributing towards OT service development
• Ability to relate to people from varied social backgrounds

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post and knowledge of conditions
• Experience of working with adults with mental health and physical health problems
• Experience of working with people with challenging behaviour, potential risk factors and retractions this may pose on therapeutic process.
• Ability to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and clear clinical reasoning for O.T. interventions
• Experience of relating to people from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds.
• Ability to manage clinical and managerial demands of time and resources.
• Ability to sustain demands of working with potentially challenging client group.
• Experience of working autonomously and being responsible for own practice and managing a varied workload including the ability to prioritise and problem solve.

Desirable

• Leadership and Management training
• Experience of implementing service improvements
• Experience of organising and or managing events
• Experience of recruitment process.

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Chase Farm Hospital

The Ridgeway

Enfield

EN2 8JL

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306-BEH-2148