Occupational Therapist

Job Summary

West London Forensic Services have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Occupational Therapy post based within our forensic secure services. Within these services, you will have the opportunity to work across Rehab, Acute, Dependency, and Vocational areas. We also have further opportunities to rotate with our Women's forensic services and Specialist community team. This post is ideal for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and highly motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist.

This post allows the successful applicant to further develop and consolidate their Occupational Therapy knowledge in a highly supportive environment whilst learning and advancing their skills within the forensic mental health field. This post will allow you to practice the core foundational skills required to become a confident occupational therapist which includes OT-specific groups and assessments.

We provide weekly professional development meetings which include clinical teaching, growing in leadership and service development. We also offer extensive training around our assessment tool and provide newly qualified OTs preceptorship sessions which link in with the wider service and AHP education lead.

Occupational Therapy is a valued profession and is an integral part of an established and highly skilled multidisciplinary team, enabling service to engage in meaningful activity whilst supporting them with the skills they require for a successful transition between services and the community.

Main Duties of the Job

• Completing clinical assessments and reports
• Supporting and guiding OT assistants.
• Working within the clinical team, managing your own caseload including assessment, implementing and evaluating treatment and applying specialist skills to support patients presenting with varied and complex conditions.
• Initiating and carrying out audits, planning and implementing changes as appropriate, and understanding the role of audit within clinical governance.
• Contributing and leading service development projects including audits and quality improvement.
• Leading in chairing, writing, and reviewing the effectiveness of group meetings and minutes, including managing task allocations to the wider team.
• Leading for a vocational area ensuring risk management checks are in order.
• Using ICT software to complete intervention plans that are accessible and visual for the client group.
• Supporting the teaching and guidance of students.
• Managing a caseload ranging from 15 - 18 patients.
• Facilitating groups and individual sessions.
• Completing administration tasks and wider team responsibilities.

You will receive a structured induction, active support, direction and supervision from senior Occupational Therapy staff, and have access to robust CPD opportunities.

About Us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• BSc (Hons) or equivalent Occupational Therapy qualification
• HCPC Registration

Experience Essential

• Application of core OT skills and OT process
• Multidisciplinary team working

Desirable

• Work experience in a Health or Social Care or 3rd Sector setting.
• Experience of working in mental health
• Involvement in research and clinical audit
• Support with teaching students/Junior staff

Knowledge Essential

• Mental health diagnoses/presentations
• Research methodology
• Core skills of OT process
• Models of practice
• Clinical and environmental risk
• Equality and diversity
• Awareness of the need to work within appropriate boundaries
• Principles of clinical governance

Desirable

• Relevant current legislation, including NICE guidelines, CPA, risk assessment and risk management
• Group work theory and practice
• OT models VDT moca

Skills Essential

• Organisational ability
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build rapport with service users, carers and colleagues
• Evidence of ability in OT assessment, treatment planning, intervention and evaluation
• Ability to work independently and under supervision as part of a team
• Group work skills
• Computer literacy

Desirable

• Ability to prepare and present papers at study days and conferences
• Ability to apply (research) evidence-based practice
• Use of standardised assessment tools and outcome measures
• Contribution to service development and the training of others
• Supervisory skills
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance

Other Requirements Essential

• Ability to reflect, identify and take responsibility for continuing professional development (CPD) needs
• Understand the need for and actively participates in own supervision and constructive use of feedback
• High levels of initiative, innovation and self-motivation
• Support with teaching and development of junior staff.
• Confident within ICT and different tech programme Excel, word, canva
• Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate a strong professional identity

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Employer Name: West London NHS Trust

Address: OT & Rehab, SOUTHALL, UB1 3EU

Employer's Website: https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk