Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Occupational Therapist to join our Enhanced Recovery Team within Lewisham Residential Services. This Band 6 role offers the opportunity to work as a Care Coordinator, supporting individuals with complex mental health needs through holistic, person-centred interventions. You will lead on occupational therapy assessments and care planning, enabling clients to thrive in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.



As part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, you will manage a defined caseload and contribute to care delivery under the Care Programme Approach and Mental Health Act frameworks. Your expertise will help shape recovery-focused pathways, with opportunities to deliver both individual and group therapeutic interventions. You will also play a key role in safeguarding, risk management and supporting service users under DoLS and Community Treatment Orders.



This is a rewarding opportunity to influence service development, supervise junior staff and contribute to clinical governance and quality improvement. You will be encouraged to engage in research, audit and professional development, with access to a rich learning environment through our partnership with King's Health Partners.



Join us in delivering high-quality, recovery-oriented support to our diverse community in South London.



To conduct OT assessments and report



To care coordinate a caseload of clients with complex needs, using evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.



To support clients to prepare and successfully re-integrate into the community, including participating into move on plan and identifying move on accommodation.



To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of OT / MDT services, holding responsibility for defined projects.



To regularly supervise OT students on practice placements.



To promote recovery and assist clients towards living and optimising their skills and abilities and help clients to an improved quality of life.



To participate in the delivery of training to in house services and external providers



The Enhanced Recovery Team (ERT) is based at Old Town Hall in Catford, Lewisham and works across the Lewisham borough. The Recovery and Social Inclusion model underpins our service philosophy.



The multi-disciplinary team is peripatetic, and works with service-users with age group of 18-65 with high support and complex needs.

Our vision for service users is as follows:

To promote recovery and quality of life for service users whose support needs require residential settings, outreach service and high support independent living.

To focus on developing and maintaining individual strengths, rather than on diagnosis.

To identify needs, to provide the right support for service-users, so that opportunities to rebuild lives, promote social inclusion, and develop new life skills, are enhanced. [i]

About South London and Maudsley:

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. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.



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Occupational Therapy assessments and report, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling the client in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.



To manage a caseload as agreed with Team Leader and be the named care co-ordinator for clients with complex needs.



To work as part of the MDT within CPA and Mental Health Act frameworks e.g. Community Treatment Order



To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the overall care plan working within the CPA process.



To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the client, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.



To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment for service users with multiple needs to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.



To demonstrate and apply a broad / high level of understanding of the effect of disability and recommend adaptations to the client's physical and social environment.



To assess occupational / vocational needs of a defined client group.



To undertake risk assessments and risk management plans as appropriate.



Provide clinical training and supervision to clients extended support network as appropriate.



When required, to undertake comprehensive assessments of referrals to ERT or of other complex needs placements requiring specialist rehabilitation input.



To provide Social Circumstances report for Mental Health Review Tribunals when required.



To deal with safeguarding issues



To manage service users on Deprivation of liberty safeguards