Lead Occupational Therapist Acute Mental Health Service
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
The inpatient service in Brent is based at Park Royal Centre for Mental Health. The Clinical Lead band 7 OT oversees the OT input into four wards; a mixed ward, one male ward, one female ward and a locked ward. The service also offers group and individual sessions outside of the ward.
There is opportunity to think creatively using recovery based principles to offer a flexible and responsive program to meet the needs of the service users. The overall aim is to support service users from assessment through to discharge from the ward.
The post involves both interesting specialist clinical work , service improvement and development activities as well as providing training and supporting the development of others.
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Main duties of the job
- To provide highly specialist occupational therapy as an expert clinical practitioner
- To work effectively in partnership with a range of agencies and community providers.
- To manage a defined clinical caseload of service users with complex mental health needs, using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.
- To integrate evidence based practice and skilful use of assessments & interventions with personal recovery principles in order to support the client to prepare for discharge form the ward.
- To provide the operational management and clinical leadership to the occupational therapy service
- To manage the financial resources for the service
- To be an active participant of the unit's management team
- To work in conjunction with senior staff in the MDT to support the development of services within the acute unit
- To provide training and education to occupational therapists and other professionals with regard to how occupation may assist the recovery of service users.
- Manage/supervise junior/unqualified staff through supervision and appraisal as required.
- To act as a fieldwork educator to students on practice placement.
- To co-facilitate Recovery & Wellbeing College courses within the inpatient setting.
- To hold responsibility for defined projects research and audit.
About us
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.
Band 7 OTs enrich teams and the service with their managerial and clinical expertise. We recognise this and therefore view them as staff we are committed to fully supporting in their clinical and managerial development. There will be opportunities to lead on trust wide OT projects, shadow senior managers and specialist clinical development and training.
Date posted
13 January 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,836 to £52,849 a year per annum inc HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
333-J-BR-0526
Job locations
Park Royal Centre for Mental Health
Central Way
London
NW107BQ
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Park Royal Centre for Mental Health
Central Way
London
NW107BQ
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