Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist [Community]

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist [Community]

The post offers the opportunity to develop clinical leadership skills and enhance the Occupational Therapy services across the pathway, ensuring the occupational needs of service users are addressed and providing an occupational therapy perspective on service delivery.

You will work alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as a range of other agencies. You will also be contributing to the management of the referral system and assisting the team manager with quality improvement and other specific clinical tasks.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for a complex clinical caseload using evidence-based practice to assess, treat and evaluate interventions.
• Lead on the development and delivery of clinical occupational therapy.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team to support service users in the learning disability community forensic team.
• Develop and sustain partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the recovery pathway of service users as they progress from an inpatient setting into the community by instilling hope and having a genuine impact on their quality of life.

About us

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To manage a clinical caseload.
• To work as a member of the MDT.
• To lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice.
• To provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to: self care, work and leisure.
• To lead on research/audit activities within own area of clinical expertise.
• To supervise the work of junior OT staff and OT students on fieldwork placement.
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans.
• To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT.
• To be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment & interventions for the client group.

Person Specification

Experience

• 4 years post registration experience as an OT including a minimum of 2 years as a senior/band 6 practitioner within a relevant mental health /Forensics setting.
• Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting social inclusion.

Skills

• Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to clinical area.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£51,883 to £58,544 a year pro rata