occupational therapist London, England
Job description
The specific skills of OT are being sought to complement Harrow’s Home Treatment Team (HTT). This is an excellent opportunity to develop specific elements of the service including groupwork and integrated working with voluntary sector organisations.
We are looking for a well-organised individual who is committed to a trauma-informed, recovery-based approach and is able to work creatively and effectively in this busy and demanding role. The successful candidate will have the ability to effectively manage a rapidly changing caseload of service users who require time-limited interventions.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Clinical Caseload:
The aim of OT in the HTT is to help individuals overcome health and/or social care needs and to maintain their roles during mental health crisis, thereby reducing the need for hospital admission. You will also work closely with OT colleagues from the in-patient and community teams to facilitate the transition from acute to community services in addition to the recovery & wellbeing college and Harrows third sector partners.
The caseload involves both OT-specific and generic working. The generic element of the role includes providing mental health assessments, initial assessments and short-term interventions to support this client group. The post holder will actively contribute to team formulations and risk assessments.
Senior Responsibilities
We recognise that Band 6’s are often the backbone of our clinical teams and we will therefore support their development both clinically and managerially. You will have opportunities to supervise staff, be a practice educator and have access to both internal and external training.
OT in CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes an Allied Health Practitioner Director, Trust wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession at all levels - both strategically and operationally.
Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R&D strategy, R&D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. This enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our OTs reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and EBP is made possible by our strong links with local universities.
We actively support the next generation of OTs through apprenticeships, student placements and the promotion of the profession as a career in schools. We are proud of the diversity in our workforce but have invested time in supporting and developing this further through our BAME OT group.
If you are an OT who strives for excellence and wants to develop to your full potential then we would welcome your application.
Location
Train: Northwick Park Hospital a short walking distance from Northwick Park Tube station Metropolitan line). Kenton station (Bakerloo and London Overground services) is a 10-15 minute walk away.
The post holder will be responsible for providing effective day-to-day mental health care and management to service users open to the HTT. The post holder will have a split caseload of OT-specific work in addition to generic HTT responsibilities.
To assess, co-ordinate and deliver a high quality mental health service for service users who require rapid response, crisis intervention and assessment, and / or in the absence of the team would require hospital admission.
The post holder will offer a unique OT skillset to the existing HTT to help facilitate early discharge from the in-patient service and provide occupationally-focussed interventions to support prevention of admission in the community.
It is expected that the post holder will be able to competently manage a caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs; using evidence-based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.
