Occupational Therapist

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video.

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our well-established and integrated adult community rehabilitation service.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Are you an experienced band 5 looking to progress in your career or a band 6 passionate about working across various health conditions?

Our community rehab team assesses housebound adults within their home environment. By assessing people within their home environment, we are in a good position to significantly improve people's quality of life and promote independence at home by providing therapy as well as by jointly working with social services, physiotherapists and the other members of our integrated team, making this a very rewarding job.

Main duties of the job

1. Undertake complex, holistic person-centred assessments, treatment, support planning and reviews of people with a range of health conditions in the community.
2. Carry a caseload and complete detailed assessment and treatment of patients within the borough of Redbridge.
3. Work as part of MDT demonstrating excellent rehabilitation of patients with complex physical and cognitive needs.
4. Experience in equipment ordering and moving and handling risk assessment.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently partway through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part-time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Provide high quality Occupational Therapy clinical expertise and service.
2. Responsible for the delivery of a range of evidence-based interventions which promote independence, social inclusion and normalisation for service users.
3. Ensure continuous responsibility for coordinating the care of service users allocated.
4. Order and review equipment to facilitate independence and reduce manual handling risks.
5. Identify barriers to rehabilitation - fatigue, cognition, psychological, complete assessment and treatment, signpost to appropriate services.
6. Manage challenging clinical situations and plan interventions whilst ensuring regular evaluation of the service users treatment plan.
7. Critically evaluate the effectiveness of therapy interventions, in collaboration with service users, carers and other professionals.
8. Provide specialist clinical advice and contribute to clinical information on service users’ progress by completing regular reviews within the duration of treatment.
9. Work in partnership with a range of other services to provide support and treatment to service users to facilitate the safe management of their needs and conditions.
10. Work within the safeguarding adults and children frameworks across the Trust.
11. Complete in-service trainings.
12. Supervise junior staff.
13. Take responsibility for an evidence-based clinical audit.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Bsc (Hons) Occupational therapy degree or equivalent
• HCPC registered

Car Driver

• Car driver with valid licence
• UK licence

Experience

• 3 years NHS/ Community experience
• Experience in equipment provision

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long-term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part-time hours or another flexible pattern.