Occupational Therapist - Community

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

To manage a caseload of clients with complex needs living in supported accommodation using evidence based/client centred principles.

To work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide a range of Occupational Therapy interventions which promote rehabilitation and independent living skills.

To provide ADL Functional assessments to support individual Care Plans and Placement reviews.

To work with service users, Family, Carers and Accommodation Staff to provide rehabilitation opportunities for service users and manage any challenging behaviours.

To take a lead in promoting the use of employment, other vocational and leisure activities with service users as a means to recovery and social inclusion.

To develop links with relevant services and agencies in the community to support service users to reintegrate and connect with their local community.

To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of illness, disability, risk and safeguarding and provide assessment, training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service users social and physical environment.

• To participate in the induction, training, supervision and education of students, volunteers, and other staff as required.To hold an awareness of the limitations that may arise in fulfilling some aspects of the role, and seek assistance and guidance from colleagues where indicated.
• To undertake negotiated generic tasks as needed to support Multidisciplinary Team working.
• To participate in service and occupational therapy evaluations, clinical pathways development and implementation, benchmarking and audit activities and to contribute to service development and continuous quality improvement projects as required.
• To demonstrate ongoing personal reflection and development through participation in supervision, mandatory training, internal and external development opportunities and CPD professional activities that fulfil HCPC and Trust requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Occupational Therapist
• HCPC Registered OT

Desirable

• Practice Placement educator course
• Post-registration qualification in related area

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience as an OT at Band 5
• Working with mental health service users (pre or post qualification)
• Experience of implementing both individual and group interventions.
• Experience of supervising junior staff / students

Desirable

• Membership of OT professional body and / or special interest group
• Experience of working with people with challenging behaviours
• Experience of working in an inner-city, multi-cultural environment

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• High level understanding of Mental Health disorders and treatment models
• Knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
• Ability to manage own workload and determine / set own priorities
• Supervisory / appraisal skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Resource Centre,

66A Queens Road

Croydon

CR0 2PR

Employer's website

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