Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 300 Occupational Therapists (OTs) in CNWL. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your dual skills.

OT in CNWL is very fortunate in having a long established professional structure and this includes an AHP director, Trust wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession at all levels - both strategically and operationally.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R&D strategy, R& D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. This enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our OTs reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and EBP is made possible by our strong links with local universities.

Main duties of the job

We actively support the next generation of OTs through apprenticeships, student placements and the promotion of the profession as a career in schools. We are proud of the diversity in our workforce but have invested time in supporting and developing this further through our BAME OT group.

This is an exciting opportunity for one Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Hillingdon Primary Care Mental Health Team and work as part of the CCT in Hillingdon to develop this new model. The specific skills of OT are being sought to complement the existing nursing team. This will enable the post holder the opportunity to develop specific occupationally focused elements of the service including group work, vocation as well as holistic occupational needs assessments (40% of the role). You will provide care to patients to prevent escalation of their health and/or social care needs at a Primary care level thereby reducing the need for them to access secondary care services. Where appropriate you will work at the primary/secondary care interface to facilitate movement of patients between primary and secondary care services.

The generic element of the role (60%) includes providing mental health assessments and offers short term interventions to support this client group. The post holder will actively contribute to formulating a joint care plan with our CCT colleagues. You will also act as a contact point and provide a link/liaison role to GP practices.

About us

In Hillingdon we are transforming our model of case management as part of the North West London - Integrated Care Model. It is an exciting opportunity to develop new ways of working to integrate physical health and mental health within primary care.. The means of delivering active case management and care coordination that has been developed in Hillingdon is the Care Connection Team. Initially introduced to address the care needs of patients over 65, with long term conditions and at risk of admission/frequent hospital attendance, the CCT is now expanding and evolving to include those aged 18 and over, as well as integrating mental health support.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Beaufort House

Cricket Field Rd

Uxbridge

UB8 1QG

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Beaufort House

Cricket Field Rd

Uxbridge

UB8 1QG

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)

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