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Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - CAMHS | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2025 |
| Location: | Shooters Hill, Woolwich, SE18 3RZ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6986065/277-6986065-CYP |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join Greenwich CAMHS, providing highly specialist care to children and young people. The post-holder will be part of the Adolescent Team, delivering rapid assessments, crisis intervention, assertive outreach, and therapeutic interventions for young people aged 12-18 with severe and complex mental health needs.
Why Join Us?
• Greenwich CAMHS is undergoing a service transformation guided by the Thrive framework, ensuring timely, responsive, and needs-based interventions.
• We work within an Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) framework, fostering a collaborative approach with young people, families, and professional networks.
• Our team is based in culturally diverse Greenwich, offering a rich, stimulating, and supportive environment with excellent public transport links, free parking, and a nearby park.
This is an exciting time to join a well-established and vibrant team at the forefront of service development. If you are passionate about making a difference in young people’s mental health, we would love to hear from you.
• Manage a complex caseload, delivering specialist clinical interventions to young people with severe mental health needs.
• Act as a care coordinator within a multi-disciplinary team, working alongside psychiatrists, psychologists, art therapists, nurses, family therapists, and psychotherapists.
• Work flexibly, including outreach work, to ensure accessible support for young people and families.
• Provide specialist advice and support to colleagues both within and outside the Trust.
The successful candidate will be a registered Occupational Therapist with extensive post-registration experience in mental health. You will bring strong therapeutic skills, adaptability, and a responsive approach to working with children and young people in Greenwich CAMHS.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Clinical Responsibilities:
• Manage a clinical caseload of young people with significant mental health needs.
• Conduct specialist OT assessments and interventions through individual and group work, focusing on:• Self-care
• Education, training, or employment
• Leisure activities
• Perform specialist mental health assessments, including risk assessments for young people in crisis (e.g., following self-harm incidents).
• Provide specialist OT advice to the MDT and contribute to risk assessment and management planning.
• Work within safeguarding and risk management guidelines and support the social inclusion agenda.
Leadership & Service Development:
• Take a lead role in developing evidence-based OT practice within the team.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the Trust-wide OT service.
• Provide leadership and supervision for junior OT staff, OT students, and OT technical instructors.
• Participate in research and audit activities to inform service improvements.
• Work collaboratively with the MDT to enhance patient care and risk management.
• Contribute to the duty rota system by conducting risk assessments.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025
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