Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our established Early Intervention Psychosis Team, based in Walthamstow, East London.
You will be working in an MDT providing specialist Occupational Therapy skills, as well as holding a small generic caseload. The team delivers both 1:1 and groupwork interventions and you will be a large part of that programme. In addition, supervision of junior members of staff such as STR and Peer Support Workers will be required.
We have a good local network of Occupational Therapists both across our other adult mental health, learning disability & children's services and we are also co-located with our physical health services.
Main duties of the job
Foster recovery through empowerment of service users and carers by involving the service user and carer in the planning of their care establishing and maintaining consistent supportive relationships, which encourage increased self-determination and responsibility for service users and their care.
· Offer a range of evidence-based interventions and risk management approaches enabling the service user and carers to reduce and manage symptoms and high-risk behaviour.
Be proactive, innovative and creative in delivering care, enabling the facilitation of service user’s recovery.
Engage service users and carers in relapse prevention and crisis plans, providing intervention that maximizes the service user’s ability to resolve crisis and prevent hospitalization.
Facilitate early discharge from both inpatient and Home Treatment Team by providing regular, formal reviews.
Deliver a flexible and responsive service through practice that is dictated by service users/carers needs.
Work collaboratively and effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies.
Deliver high quality care and provide solutions to service users with severe and enduring mental health problems.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by
the best people.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being
properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters
will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will
undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which
will include mandatory training, systems training and the
allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will
have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior
managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on
engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The
induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification
for more information about this role and working at North East
London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this
when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the
criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as
possible as some posts close early to limit the number of
applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable
to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility
under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic
salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not
included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI
during the recruitment process.
1. To plan, implement and evaluate delivery of care ensuring timely and effective discharge. To include risk management and positive risk taking.
2. To manage a caseload of service users, offering a range of interventions, for a stated limited period. Providing this intervention in venues which best reflects service and service user need.
3. To be involved in the development and delivery of community group programmes, undertaking the development of risk assessments and group protocols in line with the trust policies and procedures.
4. Participating in the implementation of the Care Programme Approach for clients requiring medium term intervention in accordance with CPA Policy.
5. To assess and monitor service user’s mental state, identifying any significant risk factors to support recovery and actively prevent relapse.
6. To apply clinical knowledge and skills to carry out occupational/vocational assessments, one-to-one and group interventions. Underpinned by relevant theoretical and evidence- based approaches.
7. To attend meetings to ensure the needs of the individuals care and families are appropriately met and coordinated. To plan, implement and evaluate the delivery of care in accordance with the Carer’s plan, as required by the Trust and Local Authority policies.
8. To promote the empowerment and education of service users in relation to their holistic health. This focuses on social inclusion, health promotion and relapse prevention.
9. To define and prioritise the needs of service users using needs led, client centred approach.
10. To exercise professional judgement in complex cases and difficult clinical situations.
11. To critically appraise intervention techniques, and clinical decisions.
12. To manage challenging clinical situations.
13. To plan intervention in conjunction with the MDT ensuring regular evaluation of the individuals care/recovery plan.
14. To contribute an Occupational Therapy perspective to multidisciplinary discussions.
15. To critically evaluate effectiveness of therapy interventions, in collaboration with service users, carers and other professionals.
16. To promote and apply equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory interventions that respects the service user’s customs, values and spiritual beliefs.
17. To attend clinical meetings, ward rounds, CPA’s and contribute clinical information on service users’ progress.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
18. Qualification
19. HCPC registered
20. Continued professional development
Desirable criteria
21. CBT diploma
22. Post qualifying study
23. Family intervention therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
24. Experience
Desirable criteria
25. experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
26. Knowledge
Skills
Essential criteria
27. skills
Desirable criteria
28. skills
other
Essential criteria
29. other
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
30. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
31. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
32. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
33. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.