The post holder will be required to deliver a comprehensive Occupational Therapy Service for service users on one designated ward and to contribute as required to the Central Therapy Group Programme, to meet the identified occupational and functional needs of the service users. As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide a variety of interventions, promoting a recovery approach and social inclusion.
This will include assessment and treatment on the unit, in community settings and home visits as appropriate to support the acute clinical pathway.
The post-holder will ensure that her/his practice meets the requirements of this clinical group and is in keeping with current evidence-based practices. The post holder will work with OT’s, Arts Therapists, and technical staff to provide a comprehensive treatment programme for service users.
The post holder will have supervisory responsibility for junior staff and student practitioners working in the unit.
Although staff are allocated initially to work in one specific ward, all appointments are made to the In-Patient Services.
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 a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
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 falls 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.
To be responsible for providing expert care in OT, in accordance with the HCPC codes of professional conduct.
To provide expert, autonomous, and highly specialist OT clinical practice within a multidisciplinary team to include:
1. Initial assessment and formulation using a range of mental health or other specialist tools.
2. When required to do so, making appropriate judgements about own caseload.
3. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers, and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.
4. Apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based interventions in accordance with the requirements of care pathways.
5. Contributing to multidisciplinary team decisions at the point of discharge and/or transfer of the service user.
6. To participate in and provide a specialist OT perspective to multidisciplinary team meetings/case discussions.
7. Maintaining contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body.
8. Assessing and managing risk on a continuous basis, in line with trust policy.
9. Encouraging service users to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their programme of care and with their consent, where appropriate, seek the co-operation of friends, relatives, and carers.
To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation to professional input to a service user's care plan when required to members of the team, trainees, or others external to the organisation. To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies. At all times to act in accordance with trust policies in relation to risk assessment contributing to comprehensive assessments of risk, and monitoring as appropriate.
This is not an exhaustive list; please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Monday 28 Apr 2025.
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