Senior Occupational Therapist

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist who is developing their career in mental health and is excited to take on a senior role. This is integral to help us deliver our plans to transform our community mental health services, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The transformation of our community mental health services will lead to truly integrated health and social care for adults in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey who have serious mental illness.

The Occupational Therapy Pathway is integral to the transformation of services and offers our service users goals based, recovery focused intervention offers. The Senior Occupational Therapist will be working alongside a junior therapist providing specific Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention in line with the Model of Human Occupation. They will also be collaborating with Occupational Therapists who work in the other locality teams, led by our Lead OT. The trust is committed to the development of Occupational Therapists and the successful candidate will have access to CPD opportunities, the Beyond Preceptorship programme (if appropriate) and AHP forums within Barnet and across the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP).

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work closely with the OT and Therapy Lead, the Lead OT for community services and community teams to embed occupational therapy specific roles across the community mental health services of the Barnet.
• The post holder will hold a case load and work as an occupational therapist across a Barnet community core hub, to provide assessment, plan and implement interventions, evaluate treatment, and ensure safe discharge. In particular the post holder will embed rehabilitation principles and develop the rehabilitation offer within the core hub.
• The post holder will provide both specialist occupational therapy assessments and offer a strengths-based, recovery focused approach with the aim of enhancing daily living skills, and engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities for service users across the community.
• The occupational therapist will work across services providing specific time limited interventions with clear goals established with the service user and in conjunction with the supporting clinical team.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Dip. COT or BSc OT
• Registered with HCPC

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate qualifications in related areas e.g. AMPS, CBT, DBT, sensory qualification/training.

Experience /knowledge

Essential criteria

• Post graduate experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of group and individual occupational therapy interventions
• Experience of working in an MDT
• Post graduate experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post

Desirable criteria

• Experience of using standardised assessments, e.g. MOHOST

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of the occupational therapy process
• Ability to apply and develop core OT skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of using MOHO assessments i.e. MOHOST, ACIS.
• Experience in Recovery principles, e.g. Recovery Star

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Empathy for people with mental health problems

Desirable criteria

• Experience with service user involvement
• Experience with external network involvement

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description and person specification B6 OT core teams (PDF, 250.6KB)
• Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 536.5KB)
• Community OT Pathway Information Leaflet (PDF, 513.7KB)