A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for a year-long fixed term contract to cover the Clinical Specialist OT Lead post within Croydon Community Adult Mental Health Services.
It is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Band 6 OT who wants career progression, or a Band 7 OT who wants to gain more community based clinical experience. This is a role which combines OT clinical work with community service users and the opportunity to get more involved with service development and grow leadership and supervision skills.
Each Locality Team has two OT posts working together. The caseloads cover working aged adults aged 18-65 with a mixture of mental health conditions needing secondary care level mental health support.
Some community experience is desirable as this role directly supports Band 5 and 6 OT practitioners and OT apprentices/students.
• Provide professional oversight, supervision and practice / service development with the other OTs within the community teams.
• Work within community redesign, development projects and governance activities as part of the senior leadership group across the community services.
• Provide direct clinical OT assessment and interventions for a caseload (not Care Co-ordination) in a locality CMHT caseload. This can involve 1;1 and group work, and working in service users homes, with families and in other community environments where appropriate.
• Work with Care co-ordinators and other MDT colleagues to support needs led care planning and providing a more comprehensive range of interventions to support service user’s recovery. Contribute towards Care Act Assessments and work to support successful community living.
• Link with inpatient and HTT OT colleagues, and liaise with external providers in the voluntary and social care sector to ensure smooth transition of service users into and out of the CMHT.
• Link with OT colleagues in the Borough working in Primary Care and physical health teams and grow connections with these networks to support meeting service users physical health and social care needs.
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.
· To lead on the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of high quality evidence based and person-centred Occupational Therapy provision for people with complex mental health issues who require assessment and/or treatment by an Adult Community Mental Health Team.
· To manage a complex OT caseload of Community Locality Team clients, use evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
· To provide specialist advice on the assessment and intervention of clients’ occupational needs andspecialist Occupational Therapy advice to the wider Community Mental Health Teams to promote Occupational Therapy approaches to care.
· To provide clinical leadership for Community OT staff through professional supervision and provide training and consultancy for OT within the specialty (Community Practice)
· To be an active member of the Community Management Team and participate in the planning, development, evaluation and governance of clinical services using advanced clinical skills and knowledge.
· To work in collaboration with the Professional Head OT Croydon Directorate in the development of the OT service, clinical and professional practice in line with best available evidence, quality standards and guidance.
· To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement and provide oversight for OT students and OT Apprentice co-ordination with Croydon Community OTs.
· To develop and maintain community links relevant to service users and carers supported by the Adult Community Mental Health Teams.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Feb 2025