occupational therapist Wanstead, England
Job description
Come and join Redbridge MHWT-West if you want to: Accept a role with protected OT work. Undertake comprehensive OT assessments and intervention. Promote recovery, social inclusion, relapse prevention, holistic health, and wellbeing. Facilitate and provide group interventions.
Want to make personalised care a reality. Promote and actively enable co-production in service delivery. Work as part of an integrated team ensuring regular evaluation of individual care and recovery plans. Undertake generic mental health assessments.
Further develop your leadership skills. In line with our aim to promote recovery, the successful Occupational Therapist will receive protected OT specific work; with half the caseload consisting of dedicated OT specific work and half caseload as an OT care coordinator. Occupational Therapy has a key role to play within the team, taking the lead on promoting a recovery focused culture and maintaining a strong network with other statutory and non-statutory services to enable improved social inclusion outcomes for service users. The teams operational working hours is Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm although some flexibility may be needed, and a car driver would be desirable but not essential for the role.
The post is full time, offering excellent opportunities to develop individual professional interests. We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, Team manager, Redbridge Lead Occupational Therapist, and would be invited to attend the Occupational Therapy mental health network in the borough that meets regularly to provide peer support. Quality Improvement is promoted and there are opportunities for participating and leading on service development projects. Please refer to the attached job description for further details on this vacancy.
