Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Having fully completed Transformation, this team is looking to recruit an Occupational Therapist to provide assessments and interventions to clients open to the Central Mental Health Wellness Team within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
The post holder will be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of service users in own care. The post holder will perform advanced occupational therapy assessment, providing a clinical diagnosis, to service users who have diverse presentations, complex physical and psychological conditions. The post holder will develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
The post holder will use evidence based practice, Occupational Therapy goals and patient centred principles, without direct supervision. The post holder will provide leadership to others through supervision and appraisal.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide high quality Occupational Therapy clinical expertise and service.
2. Responsible for the delivery a range of evidence based interventions which promote recovery, social inclusion and normalisation for service users.
3. Ensure continuous responsibility for coordinating the care of an identified group of service users as part of a team.
4. Manage challenging clinical situations and plan interventions whilst ensuring regular evaluation of the service users care plan.
5. Critically evaluate effectiveness of therapy interventions, in collaboration with service users, carers and other professionals.
6. Provide specialist clinical advice and contribute to clinical information on service users’ progress by attending meetings and ward rounds.
7. Work in partnership with a range of other services to provide support and treatment to service users to facilitate the safe management of their needs.
8. Work within the safeguarding adults and children frameworks across the Trust.
9. Take responsibility for an evidence-based clinical audit.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full details of main responsibilities.
We encourage all interested candidates to apply, even if you do not meet all the specified criteria. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and believe that different backgrounds can contribute to our team’s success.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
10. BSc or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
11. Current HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
12. Clinical Supervision Training
13. Evidence of post qualification training
Experience
Essential criteria
14. Assess, plan, implement, evaluate OT interventions
15. Facilitating/leading groups for service users from variety of social/healthcare environment
16. Working with people who present challenging behaviour
17. Experience of working in mental health inpatient or community
Desirable criteria
18. Involvement in audit
Values
Essential criteria
19. Demonstrate NELFT values
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
20. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
21. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
22. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
23. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.