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

Are you an experienced Band 5 who is looking to progress to a Band 6 OT position? Or are you a Band 6 OT who would like to develop their clinical skills in Adult Acute Inpatient Mental Health and their leadership and managerial skills? If yes, then this is the job for you!

In Enfield Mental Health we have a wonderful and thriving AHP network that we would welcome you to be apart of. The post holder will have access to divisional and trust wide AHP training programmes and development opportunities as relevant to their role. There will be opportunities to join AHP Quality Improvement projects and service developments e.g. the AHP Race Equalities Working Group.

Bespoke to Enfield, we have childcare on site and pride ourselves to supporting the wellbeing of all AHP staff.

Interested? - We welcome your application and look forwards to hearing from you. APPLY NOW!!

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and independently manage a varied and complex caseload on the acute inpatient mental health wards in the Enfield Mental Health.
• The post holder will provide a variety of specialised Occupational Therapy Assessments and interventions, promoting a recovery approach and social inclusion on the wards, community settings and home visits as appropriate to support safe discharge of service users.
• The post holder will work with other AHP staff in the team to provide a comprehensive therapy programme for service users across the three acute wards.
• The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and appraisal. There is also expectation of acting as placement educator for student practitioners. They will ensure that their practice meets the requirements of this clinical group and will contribute to clinical evaluation and promote the use of evidence-based practice to inform service improvement.
• The post holder will be managed by the Lead Occupational Therapist. Although staff are allocated initially to work on one specific ward, the post holder is also expected to cover other wards when necessary.
• The post holder will deputise for the leadership of the team in the absence of the team lead OT.

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

The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

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 see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• HCPC registered OT
• Dip/BSc/MSc in Occupational Therapy

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of other relevant Postgraduate education.
• Membership of RCOT

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Experience of acute inpatient and/or community areas, working with people going through mental health ilness
• Working with a range of HCPs including peer workers
• Experience in using a range of standardised OT assessments
• Experience of supervising students and OT assistant staff.

Desirable criteria

• Post-registration experience in an NHS, mental health setting

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively within a multiprofessional team
• Confidence to work autonomously and use own initiative.
• Awareness of risk assessment/ management in an rehabilitation or acute and inpatient /or community setting.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of experience building links with local community services

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

• Senior Occupational Therapist JD&PS (PDF, 448.4KB)
• NLFT Functional Requirement (PDF, 536.5KB)