Occupational Therapist - Redbridge CAMHS

at  NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Calling all Mental Health Occupational Therapists with a passion for supporting children and young people!
Are you ready to make a difference ? Redbridge Directorate is excited to invite applications for the post of Band 6 Community Occupational Therapist/Care Coordinator within our vibrant and forward-thinking Redbridge CAMHS services.
About Redbridge CAMHS: Join a diverse, dynamic, and innovative multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing top-notch care. We pride ourselves on our collaborative and compassionate approach, ensuring every team member thrives and every service user receives the best care possible.
The Role: As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you’ll play a crucial role in our services for children and young people, particularly within the Emotional and Behavioural, Neurodevelopment, and Conduct and Behavioural pathways. providing you with a broad and enriching experience.

COME AND JOIN REDBRIDGE CAMHS TO:

• Accept a role with protected OT work.
• Undertake comprehensive OT assessments and intervention.
• Promote recovery, social inclusion, relapse prevention, holistic health, and wellbeing.
• Facilitate and provide group interventions.
• Want to make personalised care a reality.
• Promote and actively enable co-production in service delivery.
• Work as part of an integrated team ensuring regular evaluation of individual care and recovery plans.
• Undertake generic mental health assessments.
• Further develop your leadership skills.
  In line with our aim to promote recovery, the successful Occupational Therapist will receive protected OT specific work; with half the
  caseload consisting of dedicated OT specific work and half caseload as an OT care coordinator.
  Occupational Therapy has a key role to play within the team, taking the lead on promoting a recovery focused culture and maintaining a strong
  network with other statutory and non-statutory services to enable improved social inclusion outcomes for service users.
  The teams operational working hours is Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm although some flexibility may be needed, and a car driver would be
  desirable but not essential for the role.
  The post is full time, offering excellent opportunities to develop individual professional interests.
  We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the leadership team ,
  you would would be invited to attend the Occupational Therapy mental health network in the borough that meets regularly to provide peer support.
  Quality Improvement is promoted and there are opportunities for participating and leading on service development projects.
  Please refer to the attached job description for further details on this vacancy.
  Use of AI
  Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability

Please refer the Job description for details