Main area Specialist Services - Forensic Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Full time and part time applicants will be considered Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week Job ref 455-NLFT-0340
Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Camlet One, Chase Farm Hospital Site Town Enfield Salary £44,485 - £52,521 Per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 26/08/2025 23:59
Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Forensic Learning Disability
Band 6
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be 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.
The post holder will work as a member of the large Occupational Therapy team with the North London Forensic Service (NLFS). The NLFS provides medium and low secure in-patient services for male and female clients diagnosed with major mental illness, Learning Disability, and Autism, who have been in contact with the criminal justice system. Also provided are specialist forensic outreach services.
This post sits specifically within the inpatient Learning Disabilities and Autism pathway of the forensic service. The pathway is made up of a medium secure ward, a low secure ward and a community forensic Learning Disability team.
The post will involve delivery of the OT provision to a designated caseload with the Leaning Disability and Autism pathway, focusing on functional daily living skills and specific mental health, and risk issues. This will include the assessment, treatment and evaluation of clinical interventions, planning and running a range of therapeutic individual and group work, carrying out functional assessments and contributing to multidisciplinary team care planning and risk assessment.
The post holder will work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and relevant outside agencies, as well as with the Clinical Specialist OT lead for the pathway, Band 5 OT’s and Technical Instructors to provide a quality service, which is responsive to client’s needs.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment and evaluation of an allocated clinical caseload, and in compliance with the care programme approach
2. To undertake the MOHOST and any other identified assessments with designated caseload as directed by service OT pathway.
3. To be responsible for planning and providing group and individual assessment and treatment sessions within the service.
4. To ensure daily feedback is received from nursing staff before starting work on designated ward.
5. To carry out standardised assessments and provide detailed feedback to the multidisciplinary team about clients’ abilities and also information about future plans and requirements for progress.
6. To undertake treatment planning, involving the client in all possible occasions.
7. To prompt and motivate the clients to attend and participate in Occupational Therapy treatment sessions.
8. To communicate treatment plans and clinical reasoning for interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team and to work in collaboration with other disciplines and staff in clinical work.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
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:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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 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
To be responsible for the Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment and evaluation of an allocated clinical caseload, and in compliance with the care programme approach
2. To undertake the MOHOST and any other identified assessments with designated caseload as directed by service OT pathway.
3. To be responsible for planning and providing group and individual assessment and treatment sessions within the service.
4. To ensure daily feedback is received from nursing staff before starting work on designated ward.
5. To carry out standardised assessments and provide detailed feedback to the multidisciplinary team about clients’ abilities and also information about future plans and requirements for progress.
6. To undertake treatment planning, involving the client in all possible occasions.
7. To prompt and motivate the clients to attend and participate in Occupational Therapy treatment sessions.
8. To communicate treatment plans and clinical reasoning for interventions to other members of the multidisciplinary team and to work in collaboration with other disciplines and staff in clinical work.
9. To plan, run and evaluate treatment sessions on a group or individual basis, using graded activities to achieve treatment aims.
10. To maintain a flexible approach to sessions, modifying activities according to the fluctuating clinical presentation of individual clients and the needs of the service.
11. To engage with clients with behaviours that challenge, contributing to team discussion regarding the clinical approach to individuals and communicating this clearly to all therapy staff working with the client. This may include aggressive and violent behaviour.
12. To work in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide a coordinated care package.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
* OT degree and HCPC registration
Knowledge and experience
* An interest in working with clients with Learning Disabilities and Autism
* Previous experience working with clients with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or mental health issues
Experience
* Experience of managing own caseload
Skills and abilities
* Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt communication to need
Skills
* Experience of supervising others
* Ability to organise and respond effectively to complex situations
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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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.
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