Occupational Therapist

Job Title: Occupational Therapist

Band: Band 6

Trust: South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Speedwell Community mental health centre, Speedwell Street

Ward/Dept: Lewisham Downham CMHT Neighbourhood 2C

Hours: 37.5Hrs or less / 9am-5pm / Monday-Friday

Introduction to the Role:

In this role, you will provide an occupational therapy service to service users with complex needs within the neighbourhood community mental health team. This will include specialist OT assessment, planning and intervention to promote wellbeing, recovery and empowering person-centred practice. Although this is a dedicated OT post, the post holder will be required to hold and integrate both the OT specific and generic elements of their job whilst complying with the college of Occupational Therapists’ Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The post holder will participate in the development, delivery and evaluation of both the Occupational Therapy and MDT interventions as required to promote a recovery focused service.

Introduction to the Trust & Team:

The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Croydon as well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.

It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trust also works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

Key Responsibilities

• To be an integrated team member within the multidisciplinary neighbourhood team providing specialist Occupational Therapy Assessment and Interventions and working within the MDT to address occupational and Recovery goals.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of physical disability and recommend adaptations to the clients physical and social environment.
• To assess and manage ongoing risks ensuring this is done in collaboration with service users and carers.
• To promote the empowerment of individual service users to manage their health as much as possible and use of Self-Directed Support where indicated.
• To utilise a comprehensive set of skills to effectively communicate and engage with service users, their families and the MDT to formulate individuals' strengths and barriers within an Occupationally focused clinical framework.
• To work effectively and responsively as member of clinical team and implement core decisions with regard to service users care and contribute to the duty rota.
• Work in partnership with other relevant agencies to ensure appropriate delivery of care plans.
• To contribute to the implementation of the Occupational Therapy Strategy in Lewisham and participate in service and occupational therapy evaluations, clinical pathways, development of service improvement projects and models oaf care as required.
• To provide leadership and professional expertise in line with clinical experience.
• To provide supervision and preceptorship of Band 5 OT’s and students and take opportunities to influence best practice and learning.
• To actively contribute to the process of service development and evaluation within Lewisham’s community services.

To be successful in applying for this role you will need:

• HCPC registration
• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Post registration experience

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:

• Relevant Qualifications
• Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable.

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