Are you looking for a role that focuses on our core professional skills - occupation? This might be the post for you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Adult Learning Disabilities Directorate, for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist working across the directorate. Our directorate works across the three boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, the post holder will have a caseload as part of the Bexley Team. They will also support the delivery of clinical pathways across the directorate.
The post requires a person with the ability to deliver occupation-focused assessment and interventions; the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team; clear communication skills; robust clinical reasoning; and the ability to consider the occupational impact on long-term health outcomes.
You can expect to receive supervision, support, and guidance as you develop the specialist skills for this role. Professional support and supervision will be provided from within the Bexley adult learning disability occupational therapy service. As a directorate, we fully support undergraduate OT training programmes and accept students on practice placements as part of the London-wide Fair Share model. There will be opportunities to support student placements.
In addition to the support you will receive within the ALD directorate, Oxleas has a robust preceptorship offer and an established Band 5 support group.
Main duties of the job
* To manage a clinical caseload of service users with a learning disability, working independently and without direct supervision.
* To provide occupation-focused assessment and intervention(s).
* To ensure clinical safety through contribution to and carrying out risk assessments, risk management plans, crisis plans, and care plans.
* To ensure that clinical records (notes, reports, risk assessments, etc.) are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
* To supervise the work of support workers and occupational therapy students on practice placement as required.
* To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
* To participate in service development and research/audit activities.
About us
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 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 various 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, 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 Listen
* We Care
Job responsibilities
* To manage a clinical caseload of service users with a learning disability, working independently and without direct supervision.
* To provide occupation-focused assessment and intervention(s).
* To ensure clinical safety through contribution to and carrying out risk assessments, risk management plans, crisis plans, and care plans.
* To ensure that clinical records (notes, reports, risk assessments, etc.) are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
* To supervise the work of support workers and occupational therapy students on practice placement as required.
* To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
* To participate in service development and research/audit activities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
Knowledge
* Understanding of assessing and delivery of Occupational Therapy
* Knowledge and awareness of Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions relevant to Adult Learning Disabilities
* Experience of MDT working
* Experience or knowledge of community working and risks
Experience
* Evidence of CPD
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Ability to organise own work diary and prioritise
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.
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