The Acute Occupational Therapy Inpatient Team provides assessment and treatment programmes to clients on the three Adults inpatient wards (Sunflower, Tulip and Daisy). The Team provides both Specialist Therapy assessments to clients and offers a needs led, client centred individual and group-based Activity and Therapy Programme on the wards and in the therapy department which is located a few yards off the wards.

Clients on the inpatient wards present with acute or enduring mental health symptoms, and often have other co-existing diagnoses which may include a range of physical diagnoses. Some clients have been detained under the Mental Health Act and may need skilled support in integrating back in the community following admission to hospital.

The therapy role within the team often involves functional assessments and providing professional advice which actively informs the teams risk assessments and discharge plans. The team works collaboratively with the wards' Multi-Disciplinary Teams.

The Team Leader provides a professional leadership role to members of the Occupational Therapy Inpatient Team to ensure that the team works in partnership with other disciplines to provide an integrated Occupational Therapy service to the inpatients on the 3 adult wards.

Main duties of the job

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This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly. Further information can be found at https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425.

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.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:

• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse

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.

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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 a small OT team made up of OTs and TIs.
• 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
• Minimum 5 years relevant clinical postgraduate experience in professional field, including 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

• Ability to relate to people from varied social backgrounds
• 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

Blossom Court, St Ann's Hospital

St Ann's Road

Haringey

N15 3TH

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