Job Description

The post is based within the Bexley Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorder and Trauma (ADAPT) Team. The post holder will carry out skilled assessments and interventions using a recovery-based approach and hold a small clinical caseload as a Care Co-ordinator. Interventions will be evidence-based and socially inclusive.



The post holder will liaise closely with all the locality teams and promote Occupational Therapy in various meetings and forums. There is responsibility for supervising OT staff and OT students on practice placements, while also making an active contribution to the ADAPT OT pathway and group programme in Bexley. Contributing to service development and quality improvement projects will also be expected.



Manage a clinical caseload.



Work as a member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT).



Support the development of evidence-based OT practice.



Provide OT-specific assessments and interventions via groups and individual work related to self-care, leisure, and work.



Contribute to service development.



Participate in research and audit activities.



Supervise the work of support workers and OT students on fieldwork placement.



Contribute to and carry out risk assessments and risk management plans.



Provide specialist OT advice to the MDT.



Work independently without direct supervision.



Follow an agreed job plan.



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 and 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 a variety of 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 and 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're Fair



We Listen



We Care



Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation