Occupational Therapist - Band 5 to 6 Development Post

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an Occupational Therapist looking to take the next step within your career? Come and work to our pioneer Trauma Informed Service.
This is a Band 5 to 6 Occupational Therapy development role. We are looking to recruit a B5 Occupational Therapist with post graduate experience within mental health.
We have one vacancy within our supportive and outstanding Home Treatment Team based in Harrow, Northwick Park Hospital. The location base is easily accessible from Northwick Park Hospital and Harrow on the Hill tube stations and is well connected to other local transport services.
This post is a pure OT role with some generic responsibilities. You will develop skills in OT specific assessments, sensory assessments and interventions, trauma informed approaches, individual and group work and have the opportunity to learn from a varied of skills within our MDT, including nursing, psychology and the medical team. Within this role you will gain specialism and possibility of studying towards a post graduate diploma in sensory integration
This post will give you the opportunity to rotate to work in the adult services and other services within Harrow.
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.
The post is supported by the Lead OT within the team who will provide regular clinical/ management supervision.
The post will enable development of OT skills within this clinical group, increase understanding and application of the recovery framework and principles of social inclusion.
This is a career progression opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to develop a specialism within the Adult Mental Health.
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. Were always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you’re at, there’s always a place for you at CNWL.
The post holder will be responsible for providing effective day-to-day mental health care and management to service users open to the HTT. The post holder will have a split caseload of OT-specific work in addition to generic HTT responsibilities.
To assess, co-ordinate and deliver a high quality mental health service for service users who require rapid response, crisis intervention and assessment, and / or in the absence of the team would require hospital admission.
The post holder together with the current HTT OT will offer a unique OT skillset to help facilitate early discharge from the in-patient service and provide occupationally-focussed interventions to support prevention of admission in the community.
It is expected that the post holder will be able to competently manage a caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs; using evidence-based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment

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