Job summary
Join our dynamic Rotational Band 5 Occupational Therapy Programme, where you'll discover a wealth of opportunities across all our Directorates. Our comprehensive support ensures abundant growth and development for every staff member.This is a unique opportunity within a six-month rotation to develop a broad knowledge base in a range of clinical specialties in both physical care and mental health, from birth to end of life care in the following areas:
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Adult Community Physical Health
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Forensic and Offender Healthcare
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Adult Mental Health
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Older People's Mental Health
We offer:
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To cover the subscription fee for the Royal College of Occupational Therapy for your first year of employment.
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Line management, professional and clinical OT supervision in line with Guidance from the RCOT
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Enhanced support with the Allied Health Professionals Preceptorship Programme
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Annual Personal Development Review (PDR)
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Quarterly Trust-wide Band 5 OT Support Group
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Career development opportunities
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Encouragement to join service development and quality improvement projects
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Invitation to the Annual Therapies Conference
Some services have evening and weekend working - the Rotational Band 5 OT will actively contribute to this. Actual working hours dependent on service need.
We warmly welcome New Graduates and Return to Practice .
Main duties of the job
- To manage a clinical caseload
- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team
- To support the development of evidence-based practice
- To provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work in the three core areas of:
- Self care
- Work/Education
- Leisure
- To contribute to service development
- To work independently without direct supervision
- To develop skills, knowledge and experience through participation in Preceptorship and the Trust-wide Band 5 Occupational Therapy Development Programme.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To manage a caseload of service users with mental health needs
- To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, OT assessment tools & treatment techniques
- To work with service users in a variety of settings in order to provide the most effective assessment & interventions
- To plan & implement service user led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals
- To ensure service users health, social, cultural and spiritual needs are considered at all times
- To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs
- To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes
- To plan and deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework
- To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability
- To assess the occupational needs of service users and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions
- To identify appropriate & inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload
- To manage effective discharge ensuring service user and all relevant agencies are given relevant information
- To contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
- To work as part of the MDT and attend all relevant clinical meetings
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To manage a caseload of service users with mental health needs
- To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, OT assessment tools & treatment techniques
- To work with service users in a variety of settings in order to provide the most effective assessment & interventions
- To plan & implement service user led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals
- To ensure service users health, social, cultural and spiritual needs are considered at all times
- To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs
- To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes
- To plan and deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework
- To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability
- To assess the occupational needs of service users and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions
- To identify appropriate & inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload
- To manage effective discharge ensuring service user and all relevant agencies are given relevant information
- To contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
- To work as part of the MDT and attend all relevant clinical meetings
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Training
Essential
- Willingness to undertake training in clinical area
Clinical experience
Essential
- Clinical experience in health and/or social care setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Training
Essential
- Willingness to undertake training in clinical area
Clinical experience
Essential
- Clinical experience in health and/or social care setting
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
