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Occupational Therapist - Redbridge CAMHS | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum plus HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 December 2024 |
| Location: | Chadwell Heath, RM64XH |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6778216/395-RR078-24-B |
Summary
Calling all Mental Health Occupational Therapists with a passion for supporting children and young people!
Are you ready to make a difference ? Redbridge Directorate is excited to invite applications for the post of Band 6 Community Occupational Therapist/Care Coordinator within our vibrant and forward-thinking Redbridge CAMHS services.
About Redbridge CAMHS:Join a diverse, dynamic, and innovative multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing top-notch care. We pride ourselves on our collaborative and compassionate approach, ensuring every team member thrives and every service user receives the best care possible.
The Role:As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you'll play a crucial role in our services for children and young people, particularly within the Emotional and Behavioural, Neurodevelopment, and Conduct and Behavioural pathways. providing you with a broad and enriching experience.
We are Looking For:
• Enthusiastic professionals with strong clinical skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a collaborative team.
• A compassionate approach to working with children, young people, and their families.
• Skills in supervising junior team members
Why Join Us?
• Be part of a supportive and innovative team.
• Engage in meaningful work that makes a real impact on young lives.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
If you're an Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you!
• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
• To provide highly specialist OT advice to members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with children and their families/carers in order to progress their treatment programmes, and to ensure an understanding of their condition/problem in order to maximise their functional potential.
• To attend relevant Education, Health and Care Plan meetings (EHCP) and any other relevant forums to share information.
• To communicate sensitive information to children and parent/carers in an empathetic way about conditions that may have significant impact on future functional abilities and quality of life.
• To undertake CAMHS initial assessments and risk assessments.
• To provide consultation to other members of the MDT internal and external to CAMHS
• 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. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High-Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.
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
Come and join Redbridge CAMHS to:
• Accept a role with protected OT work.
• Undertake comprehensive OT assessments and intervention.
• Promote recovery, social inclusion, relapse prevention, holistic health, and wellbeing.
• Facilitate and provide group interventions.
• Want to make personalised care a reality.
• Promote and actively enable co-production in service delivery.
• Work as part of an integrated team ensuring regular evaluation of individual care and recovery plans.
• Undertake generic mental health assessments.
• Further develop your leadership skills.
In line with our aim to promote recovery, the successful Occupational Therapist will receive protected OT specific work; with half the
caseload consisting of dedicated OT specific work and half caseload as an OT care coordinator.
Occupational Therapy has a key role to play within the team, taking the lead on promoting a recovery focused culture and maintaining a strong
network with other statutory and non-statutory services to enable improved social inclusion outcomes for service users.
The teams operational working hours is Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm although some flexibility may be needed, and a car driver would be
desirable but not essential for the role.
The post is full time, offering excellent opportunities to develop individual professional interests.
We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the leadership team ,
you would would be invited to attend the Occupational Therapy mental health network in the borough that meets regularly to provide peer support.
Quality Improvement is promoted and there are opportunities for participating and leading on service development projects.
Please refer to the attached job description for further details on this vacancy.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Nov 2024