Specialist Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sidcup, DA14 6LT |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7283924/277-7283924-CPH |
Summary
We are looking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist to our dynamic, integrated multi- disciplinary Meadowview team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join and develop our integrated collaborative working within our team and the directorate. Meadowview is a multi- professional 36 bedded unit consisting of Nurses, PT's, OT's, care coordinators, admins. and rehab assistants. The team aims to provide rehabilitation, holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley or Greenwich GP.
You will work with specific OT caseloads following the care pathway providing a high standard of service user focused interventions around occupational roles. This role also provides an opportunity to carry out generic and care co-ordination roles as an agreed percentage of your casework.
In applying occupational therapy models, you will work from an evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and be creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. You will also contribute to a forward-thinking group programme and lead on implementing particular groups.
You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as working with a range of other agencies. The Oxleas Occupational Therapy Service is committed to the continuing professional development (CPD) of its staff. A well-developed supervision structure, CPD activities, and a variety of training opportunities underpin this.
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
Demonstrate specialist theoretical knowledge of complex acute and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of clients.
Work closely with other health professionals and social services and provide specialist Occupational Therapy advice in meeting the needs of the clients.
Conduct a thorough holistic specialist Occupational Therapy assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures.
Recommend appropriate interventions to promote functional independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.
Complete individual plans of care for clients who require input from integrated community services bed-based or home-based rehabilitation input.
Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that client’s needs are met.
Provide specialist Occupational Therapy advice and support to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and reasoning.
Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation, education and demonstration of equipment.
Participate in and lead MDT meetings and complex family conferences.
Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients.
To be able to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner.
Seek guidance from more experienced colleagues when required.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Jul 2025
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