Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join our Older People Community Mental Health Team for a secondment or fixed term opportunity.

This Occupational Therapy role will be crucial in contributing to the development and implementation of occupational therapy interventions in this service. You will have opportunity to facilitate evidence-based groups as well as deliver therapy programmes on an individual basis, supporting skills development and community engagement. The postholder may be expected to care co-ordinate a small, defined number of service users, who have predominant occupational needs. You will work alongside other OTs within the CMHT as well as a wide range multidisciplinary team colleagues. CPD and Older People OT peer supervision opportunities are available within the wider Occupational Therapy service across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Occupational Therapists, along with the multidisciplinary team, are responsible for the clinical care pathway of service users by undertaking evidence based assessment, intervention and discharge planning. The post holder will work as a senior member of the multidisciplinary team and be responsible for assessing, treating, rehabilitating and evaluating client care within the team they are based. The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of clients and be able to work independently as a senior clinician.

Line management, professional and clinical Occupational Therapy supervision is delivered in line with guidance from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. The post holder will be encouraged to contribute to service development and innovative projects within the directorate and will be supported to do so.

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're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bexleyheath Centre

4 Emerton Close

Bexleyheath

DA6 8DX

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bexleyheath Centre

4 Emerton Close

Bexleyheath

DA6 8DX

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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