Job Description

Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. The North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.



This is an exciting secondment opportunity to work across statutory and non-statutory boundaries in Camden and is central to the success of the development of the Occupational Therapy Service in our new Core Teams.



To lead on the OT provision across the three Service Teams to ensure that staff working in this professional line, work to support service users in their teams effectively.



To support decision making at MDT meetings; ensuring that the role of OT is effectively represented and advocated for across all Service Teams. To maintain effective and meaningful collaborative relationships with the Service Managers and Advanced Practitioner across the system. To work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary Core Team, supporting the team to develop and provide a high-quality service. To produce high-quality specific MoHO assessments and reports to support service users to maximise their activity of daily living skills and lifestyle management. To assess and recommend levels of care needed for packages of care to enable service users to live as independently as possible in the community. This will include liaising with other organisations and health care providers. To oversee, plan, and implement individual and/or group interventions delivered by the occupational therapy team, in collaboration with the client, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals. To take a lead role in assessing the needs of service users with complex mental and physical health needs. This includes falls risk minimisation work and the issuing and provision of equipment, aids, and adaptions.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.



We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.



In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.



To provide a high standard of clinical assessment, treatment and care in keeping with the philosophy and operational policies of the service. To provide a service that respects diversity and equality and supports the service user and their carers in line with recovery principles. To manage referrals to occupational therapy from the locality teams; to provide screening, prioritising and effectively managing the waiting list. To engage service users in developing self-management skills and promoting independence and autonomy where appropriate. To utilise agreed frameworks and guidance such as NICE; evidence based best practice and or local policy and procedure, as well as a range of profession specific tools, the post holder will actively assess, plan, and determine the care needs of service users. They will undertake and contribute to profession specific and/ or multi-disciplinary team reviews of care. To contribute and develop care plans in collaboration with the service user.

This is not an exhaustive list, p lease see the attached and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.