Community Occupational Therapist | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £40,701 - £48,054 per annum including Outer London Allowance |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Enfield, EN2 8JL |
| Cwmni: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6310415/306-BEH-1956 |
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Would you like to work in a large, supportive Occupational Therapy Department with lots of opportunities and support? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our innovative and dynamic community team at the North London Forensic Service (NLFS).
The post holder will be required to undertake responsibility for providing a community occupational therapy service for a designated caseload of service users being discharged from Forensic Secure Units into the community in the NLFS catchment areas of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington. Intervention will focus on functional daily living skills and specific mental health and risk issues.
The post holder will be working with service users detained under The Mental Health Act, 1983 (amended 2007), many of whom suffer from a severe and enduring mental illness and have an offending history,and have recently been discharged fromhospital butremain under the support services of the forensic mental health community team.
The post holder will work in collaboration with inpatient OTs to ensure transition into the community is consistent and supportive. The post holder will work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and relevant outside agencies, to plan and implement personalised care packages for individuals; this may include individual, group and assessment work.
Main duties of the job are to to provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting to a forensic client group. To assess OT needs, devise care programmes and packages of care including risk assessment. To implement and evaluate treatment plans in collaboration with service users, providing individual and group interventions.
The post holder will provide supervision and support to more junior staff within a growing OT team and undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise, supported by the B7.
The successful candidate will have strong engagement and motivational skills and be able to work well with service users with complex mental health needs and a forensic / offending history. The post holder will require effective written and verbal communication skills with a working knowledge the occupational therapy process.
The successful post holder will be supported with regular supervision, a yearly appraisal and many CPD opportunities including a robust in-house training programme, peer support sessions, and ongoing learning opportunities. There is also opportunity to be involved in research and quality improvement projects.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
• 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 new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed view of the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Jun 2024