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Occupational Therapist

Employer
South West London & St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Location
London
Salary
£37,152 to £43,994 a year Incl HCAS per annum
Closing date
27 Sep 2022

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Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Occupational Therapist/Care Co-ordinator

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including high secure services, at Springfield Hospital.

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do.

When you join us, you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

About the team:

This role is within the Sutton and Cheam Recovery and Support Team (RST) which is a community mental health team supporting clients within these boroughs.

About the location:

The position is based at the Jubilee Health Centre in Wallington, but due to the nature of the role, a significant amount of the role will be based in the community.

The Jubilee Health Centre is based just off of Wallington High Street with numerous shops, cafes and transport links including Wallington train station. The centre is also surrounded by residential roads which are free to park in.

Main duties of the job

About the role:

This is an exciting time to join SWLSTG's Sutton community mental health service. We are currently undergoing transformation under the NHS Long Term Plan and reviewing the effectiveness of our Community Mental health services to consider improved ways of working and supporting our clients with their recovery. We are now at our implementation stage and are inviting you to potentially join us in this journey.

This role sits within our Community Service Line which includes all community based mental health teams, such as our Recovery and Support teams and Early Intervention services.

These teams follow the Care Programme Approach (CPA) which involves having a holistic care and support role with a caseload of clients with complex needs.

In addition, the successful candidate will have focused Occupational Therapy specific activity as well as hold a reduced caseload in their teams, promoting recovery goals and progress towards stepping down from Mental Health services.

The post involves working closely with carers and external community organisations to developing our partnership working, which is an integral part of the Occupational Therapy role.

The successful candidate will join our supportive and friendly group of community Occupational Therapists. We use the Model of Human Occupation as well as other assessment tools to review the client's environment, sensory preferences and physical disability.

About us

Benefits:

We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
  • Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
  • Work life balance, we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and working from home.
  • Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
  • Subsidised car parking - You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.
  • NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:
  • Eye examinations
  • Looking after your health
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Car lease scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Staff restaurants
  • Free gym membership

We offer tailored 1:1 interventions, such as GLOW, an evidence based stepped intensity intervention delivered over 16 weeks, which is fully supported by the author who has worked in an academic partnership with us in the Trust.

Job description Job responsibilities

Within the community Occupational Therapy team, we are committed to developing the Occupational Therapy role, including supporting staff to contribute to our evidence base to ensure the clinical effectiveness of the interventions we provide. We are developing expertise to offer a menu of high-quality OT interventions, that deliver consistency and clarity across the Community Service line. We aim to deliver a high-quality service, and to proactively promote Occupational Therapy within teams.

The successful candidate will be offered professional supervision from their lead Occupational Therapist to focus on their Occupational Therapy practice, while line management supervision is provided by the team manager.

The successful candidate will join our wider Occupational Therapy service which includes our acute and urgent care, learning disability, specialist, national and forensic service lines.

We are working as a Trust to meet our Occupational Therapy Framework, which focuses on four main areas; career development, evidence-based practice, partnership working and putting occupation at the heart of our practice.

We meet quarterly for Occupational Therapy training events which have recently included training around sensory needs and sensory profile assessments and the Model of Human Occupation, focusing on volition.

We have regular borough-based OT forums for professional support and development and can arrange for staff to shadow OTs in other services, as development opportunities. We are also committed to training future Occupational Therapists and take students regularly throughout the year.

As a Trustwide Occupational Therapy service, we follow the Model of Human Occupation and provide staff with a centralised online system to access all these assessments, manuals and helpful guidance.

We have a close working relationship with our Involvement team who support Service Users and carers to get involved in our work in the Trust, including in any Occupational Therapy service development.

We have also collaborated with St Georges Hospital Occupational Therapy department, whom share their physical health knowledge and offer training for our staff and we have reciprocated by sharing our mental health knowledge.

We support Occupational Therapists to become disability champions within teams to ensure clients disability, views on disability and reasonable adjustments are documented and met by the teams. We provide an active role in promoting disability awareness within the Trust.

We offer group programmes, such as an occupationally focused anxiety management group and an eight- week evidence-based group programme, to help clients develop their lives beyond Mental Health services.

We are a vibrant, friendly and innovative service and we hope that if you share our vision, we will be hearing from you soon!

Person Specification Education, Training & Qualific Essential
  • Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Registration to practice in the UK
  • Evidence of post registration training relevant to mental health practice
  • Training in the theory and application of the model of human occupation within the first 4 months of appointment
Desirable
  • Practice placement educators course within one year of appointment
  • Apple registration
Experience Essential
  • Experience of carrying a caseload in a mental health setting
  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Experience of maintaining a written record of continual professional development
  • Experience of individual and groupwork
  • Experience of writing specialist occupational therapy reports
  • Experience of participating in a service development project
Desirable
  • Experience of working in a range of mental health settings
  • Experience of supervising junior staff
  • Successful completion of preceptorship
  • Experience of being a practice placement educator
  • Experience of using mental health services as a service user, or carer, relative, friend of a service user.


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