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Employer: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type: NHS Site: Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital Town: Enfield Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum including HCAS Salary period: Yearly Closing: 01/05/2025 23:59 Senior Occupational TherapistNHS AfC: Band 6Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together. Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care. Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes. Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services. Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services. Take a trauma-informed approach to everything we do. We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more. The North London Way to deliver Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities. We are seeking to recruit a forward-thinking and highly motivated Occupational Therapist to join the Inpatient Therapy Team in Enfield Rehab Mental Health team at Chase Farm Hospital. The successful candidate will be involved in shaping and monitoring the quality of service provision. As a key member of the MDT, the successful applicant will hold a designated caseload and be able to work independently providing OT assessments, addressing occupational performance, enabling the client in areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure, and will: Be motivated, energetic, and a flexible team player with excellent communication skills. Be able to use initiative and have some responsibilities towards the management of the inpatient treatment programme. Demonstrate an interest and participation in evidence-based practice and professional development and working with recovery principles. Be familiar with the MOHO and other evidence-based assessment tools in order to establish a baseline functional assessment from which recommendations can determine further ongoing care and treatment to enable optimum functioning. When applying for this role, please include a paragraph about why you enjoy being an OT and an example of an intervention you have done which you are proud of. Main duties of the jobTo be part of the Inpatient Therapy Team who provide occupational therapy provision to the rehabilitation wards based on the MOHO model. To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary teams on the wards and, with supervision, be involved in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care. The post will involve delivery of the OT provision to a designated caseload, focusing on recovery and developing skills for life. This will include planning and running a range of therapeutic groups and individual sessions, carrying out functional assessments, and contributing to multidisciplinary team care planning, formulation, and risk assessment. You will work closely with the MDT to provide occupational therapy assessment and intervention as part of the acute clinical pathway. The team includes Occupational Therapists, Art Therapist, Technical Instructors, Activity Coordinators, Fitness instructor, and Physiotherapist. Working for our organisationNorth London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy: We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology. Why NLFT? We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme. Excellent internal staff network. The postholder will be aligned with our Values: We Work Together We Keep Things Simple We Are Proudly Diverse Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesThe successful applicant will manage a caseload of mixed client groups with a range of mental health needs across both the short and long stay rehab using evidence-based/client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions. Clients with complex needs will be managed by the OT inpatient rehab team lead who also oversees the wards the successful applicant will be based on. Under the guidance and support of the Inpatient OT Rehab lead, the successful applicant will plan, assess, and provide group and 1:1 treatment sessions for patients. To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and support for the OT team and other disciplines, as appropriate. To contribute to service improvement in the OT service. Person specificationQualificationsMSc/BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy HCPC registered OT Evidence of other relevant Postgraduate education/relevant CPD Membership of RCOT/specialist networks eg RCOTMHSS ExperienceExperience of mental health inpatient and/or community areas, working with people going through a mental health crisis. Experience in using a range of standardised OT assessments. Ability to write comprehensive ADL reports and make appropriate recommendations to optimise patient functioning. Experience of facilitating a variety of groups. Ability to address physical health needs of patients. Experience with supervising junior staff. Involvement in research, clinical audit, quality improvement projects. Able to prescribe small pieces of equipment/maintain equipment stores. Knowledge of the MOHO model and its application. Skills/AbilitiesAble to communicate effectively within a multi-professional team. Confidence to work autonomously and use own initiative. Awareness of risk assessment/management in an acute and/or community setting. Sensitive to cultural, dynamic and diverse needs. Building links with local community services. References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR. If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details. Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff. Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System. Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first50applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible. All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction your suitability for the position in which you will be employed. Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted. By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers. Employer certification / accreditation badgesYou must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Name: Anna Lowe Job title: Inpatient Rehab Therapy Team Lead Email address: anna.lowe8@ Telephone number: 02087025231 Please email me to arrange a visit or a telephone call about the post at anna.lowe8@.#J-18808-Ljbffr