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
We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our well-established and integrated adult community rehabilitation service.
Are you an experienced band 5 looking to progress in your career or a band 6 passionate about working across various health conditions?
Our community rehab team assesses housebound adults within their home environment. By assessing people within their home environment, we are in a good position to significantly improve people's quality of life and promote independence at home by providing therapy as well as by jointly working with social services, physiotherapists, and the other members of our integrated team, making this a very rewarding job.
Main duties of the job
Undertake complex, holistic person-centred assessments, treatment, support planning, and reviews of people with a range of health conditions in the community.
Carry a caseload and complete detailed assessments and treatment of patients within the borough of Redbridge.
Work as part of MDT demonstrating excellent rehabilitation of patients with complex physical and cognitive needs.
Experience in equipment ordering and moving and handling risk assessment.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT places 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. New starters will have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
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 partway through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High-Cost Area Supplement
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) pro-rata for part-time staff.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide high-quality Occupational Therapy clinical expertise and service.
Responsible for the delivery of a range of evidence-based interventions which promote independence, social inclusion, and normalisation for service users.
Ensure continuous responsibility for coordinating the care of allocated service users.
Ordering and reviews of equipment to facilitate independence and reduce manual handling risks.
Identify barriers to rehabilitation - fatigue, cognition, psychological issues, complete assessment and treatment, signpost to appropriate services.
Manage challenging clinical situations and plan interventions whilst ensuring regular evaluation of the service user's treatment plan.
Critically evaluate the effectiveness of therapy interventions, in collaboration with service users, carers, and other professionals.
Provide specialist clinical advice and contribute to clinical information on service users’ progress by completing regular reviews during the treatment duration.
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 and conditions.
Work within the safeguarding adults and children frameworks across the Trust.
Completing in-service training.
Supervision of junior staff.
Take responsibility for an evidence-based clinical audit.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy degree or equivalent
* HCPC registered
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* Car driver with valid license
* UK license
Experience
* 3 years NHS/Community experience
* Experience in equipment provision
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:
* 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.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to 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.
* 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.
* 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, 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.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community makes to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans, reservists, and military spouses, and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure consideration.
If you require any additional support during the application process, please contact recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment journey.
Name: Toyin Borishade
Job title: Therapy Team Lead
Email address: oluwatoyin.borishade@nelft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 02087082350
Additional information: Candidates are welcome to call for more information relating to the role and visit.
Essential experience required:
Post-graduate clinical experience working as a Band 5/Band 6 Occupational Therapist.
Evidence of participation in in-service training and personal CPD.
HCPC registration.
Please see the job description and person specification for full duties of this post.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
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