Occupational Therapist | West London NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, W3 8NJ |
| Company: | West London Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7202676/222-LS-MINT-308-B |
Summary
Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist.
Are you looking for a post to support your transition into senior clinician and support for your development within community mental health settings? Through this role you are able to explore different settings and develop skills across mental and community settings and continue your development. Are you invested in providing person centred care that is centred in integrating community mental health care into the community as part of the community mental health framework?
Within this role you will receive supervision by Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist and Professional OT/ Therapy Leads in each service area. West London has a strong AHP leadership team and a wider OT management within the trust which is supportive of staff and their development needs. There is an existing across trust AHP Training Programme as well as other training opportunities internally. Staff have been supported with developing their skills across the 4 pillars of practice within trust opportunities and external training as identified by PDR. You will be a part of embedding the AHP strategy.
You will carry a clinical caseload which will include;
· Assessment and treatment of patients within each service line for an array of conditions and to determine clinical reasoning and Occupational Therapy treatments in line with your case formulations.
· To provide a client-centred occupational therapy service to a defined caseload of service users, working with multi-disciplinary team members and the occupational therapy team.
· To work as part of a team within the multi-disciplinary Team for the best interests of the caseload.
· Provide initial assessments, crisis and care plans of service users 18 to 65 years of age with a variety of mental health conditions.
· Supervision of junior and support staff.
To plan, conduct and review audits and service development projects.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Monday 26 May 2025