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Specialist Occupational Therapist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Chwefror 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £51,883 - £58,544 pro rata per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Mawrth 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Mitcham, CR4 4TP |
| Cwmni: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7013601/294-MHCA-7013601-JB |
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We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated occupational therapist committed to delivering high-quality care to autistic people and their families.
This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified, experienced professionallooking to contribute to the development of this new service.
The Adult Autism Intensive Support Team willprovide specialist assessment, formulation, therapeutic interventions (directly to individuals or through consultation) to a small number of autistic people with complex needs. The multi-disciplinary service will support autistic adults, without a co-occurring intellectual disability, under the care of an existing SWLSTG services.
You will be thoughtful in the way you work with the multi-disciplinary team and have experience in developing the skills of colleagues.You will be interested in working with external partners to develop supportive networks and have energy, drive and enthusiasm for working with complexity.
You will be expected to provide OT input to autistic people, across a variety of community settings, with individuals, groups, families and staff teams.
You will be part of a developing service that strives for clinical excellence and aims to support its staff to feel valued, provides opportunities for training and development and encourages active participation relevant service developments.
You will have excellent written and spoken communication skills, an ability to work sensitively and thoughtfully with service users and their carers often around challenging and complex presentations. You will be flexible in your approaches to problem solving, be creative and be ready to embrace challenges and enjoy working as part of a team.
The post holder will
• Be responsible for the planning, development and delivery of specialist occupational therapy including sensory assessment, intervention, education and awareness for individuals under the care of the Adult Autism Intensive Support Service.
• Support a caseload of service users with highly complex needs, using evidence based, client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate occupational therapy interventions.
• Provide professional leadership to colleagues supporting the delivery of OT packages.
• Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the service, holding responsibility for defined projects.
• Participate in and contribute to local service development and strategy.
• Contribute to the Trust wide OT strategy (Model of Human Occupation and Specialist forums).
• Supervise OT students on fieldwork placements.
• Undertake regular audits and research and development activities.
• Provide training and support for families, staff and wider network professionals as required.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together.We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
• To be responsible for the planning, development and delivery of specialist occupational therapy including sensory assessment, intervention, education and awareness for individuals under the care of the Adult Autism Intensive Support Team.
• To support a caseload of clients with highly complex needs, using evidence based, client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate occupational therapy interventions.
• To provide professional leadership to colleagues supporting the delivery of OT packages.
• To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the service, holding responsibility for defined projects.
• To participate in and contribute to local service development and strategy.
• To contribute to the Trust wide OT strategy (Model of Human Occupation and Specialist forums).
• To supervise OT students on fieldwork placements.
• To undertake regular audits and research and development activities.
• To provide training and support for families, staff and wider network professionals as required.
• To work closely with Trust Head of Therapies and other senior colleagues, leading initiatives relating to clinical governance including audit, implementation of NICE guidelines.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Mar 2025