This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist who is developing their career in mental health and is excited to take on a senior role. This is integral to help us deliver our plans to transform our community mental health services, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The transformation of our community mental health services will lead to truly integrated health and social care for adults in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey who have serious mental illness.
The Occupational Therapy Pathway is integral to the transformation of services and offers our service users goals based, recovery focused intervention offers. The Senior Occupational Therapist will be working alongside a junior therapist providing specific Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention in line with the Model of Human Occupation. They will also be collaborating with Occupational Therapists who work in the other locality teams, led by our Lead OT. The trust is committed to the development of Occupational Therapists and the successful candidate will have access to CPD opportunities, the Beyond Preceptorship programme (if appropriate) and AHP forums within Barnet and across the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP).
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will work closely with the OT and Therapy Lead, the Lead OT for community services and community teams to embed occupational therapy specific roles across the community mental health services of Barnet.
* The post holder will hold a case load and work as an occupational therapist across a Barnet community core hub, to provide assessment, plan and implement interventions, evaluate treatment, and ensure safe discharge. In particular the post holder will embed rehabilitation principles and develop the rehabilitation offer within the core hub.
* The post holder will provide both specialist occupational therapy assessments and offer a strengths-based, recovery focused approach with the aim of enhancing daily living skills, and engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities for service users across the community.
* The occupational therapist will work across services providing specific time limited interventions with clear goals established with the service user and in conjunction with the supporting clinical team.
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* Dip. COT or BSc OT
* Registered with HCPC
* Postgraduate qualifications in related areas e.g. AMPS, CBT, DBT, sensory qualification/training.
Experience /knowledge
* Post graduate experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of group and individual occupational therapy interventions
* Experience of working in an MDT
* Post graduate experience of working with people with mental health conditions relevant to specialty of post
* Experience of using standardised assessments, e.g. MOHOST
Skills and Abilities
* Working knowledge of the occupational therapy process
* Ability to apply and develop core OT skills
* Experience of using MOHO assessments i.e. MOHOST, ACIS.
* Experience in Recovery principles, e.g. Recovery Star
Personal Qualities
* Empathy for people with mental health problems
* Experience with service user involvement
* Experience with external network involvement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£42,939 to £50,697 a year Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
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