Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary ward team, which is professionally supported by a Head OT. There is a mix of band 5, band 6 and band 7 occupational therapists across the acute and crisis mental health service, as well as other professions, including Lived Experience Practitioners and Occupational Therapy Technical Instructors. It is a friendly and supportive team and we welcome new staff and the ideas and skills they bring.



The post involves occupational therapy specific work with a mix of opportunities including:



Carrying an inpatient caseload, including doing assessments and 1:1 interventions to build functional and social skills.



Working closely with the ward Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT)



Group interventions.

We offer:

To cover the subscription fee for the Royal College of Occupational Therapy for your first year of employment.



Line management, professional and clinical OT supervision in line with Guidance from the RCOT



Enhanced support with the Allied Health Professionals Preceptorship Programme



Annual Personal Development Review (PDR)



Quarterly Trust-wide Band 5 OT Support Group



Career development opportunities



Encouragement to join service development and quality improvement projects



Invitation to the Annual Therapies Conference



We warmly welcome New Graduates, Return to Practice and International Occupational Therapists.



To manage a clinical caseload



To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team



To support the development of evidence-based practice



To provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work in the three core areas of:



Self care Work/Education Leisure

To contribute to service development



To work independently without direct supervision



To develop skills, knowledge and experience through participation in Preceptorship and the Trust-wide Band 5 Occupational Therapy Development Programme.



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



To manage a caseload of service users with mental health needs



To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, OT assessment tools & treatment techniques



To work with service users in a variety of settings in order to provide the most effective assessment & interventions



To plan & implement service user led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals



To ensure service users health, social, cultural and spiritual needs are considered at all times



To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs



To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes



To plan and deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework



To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability



To assess the occupational needs of service users and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions



To identify appropriate & inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload



To manage effective discharge ensuring service user and all relevant agencies are given relevant information



To contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans



To work as part of the MDT and attend all relevant clinical meetings