Occupational Therapist – Mental Health Adult Inpatient

Job overview

The friendly Occupational Therapy team in Newham are inviting a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join the Inpatient Occupational Therapy Mental Health Team

This is an ideal opportunity for your first Band 5 role, and we are inviting passionate final year students to apply as well. (There is the option of starting as a Band 4 whilst awaiting HCPC registration.)

The Occupational Therapist is part of the established multi-disciplinary team and the role is to undertake specific Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions of referred individuals, the emphasis is on supporting the person to achieve their goals in self-care, productivity and leisure to continue to live at home; group work is encouraged; another aspect of the role is generic assessment and joint working with other team members.

Please contact us for any further discussions, visits and to answer any questions you might have.

Main duties of the job

• To provide Occupational Therapy specific assessments and intervention/treatments to a designated caseload of inpatient adult service users with mental health issues and support needs via a range of individual and or group treatments.
• To develop and maintain links with the Inpatient and Community services, relevant statutory and non-statutory agencies.
• To support students on practice education placements when required
• To contribute to the planning and evaluation of Inpatient OT services

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.