Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist.

Are you looking for a post to support your transition into senior clinician and support for your development within community mental health settings?  Through this role you are able to explore different settings and develop skills across mental and community settings and continue your development. Are you invested in providing person centred care that is centred in integrating community mental health care into the community as part of the community mental health framework?

Within this role you will receive supervision by Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist and Professional OT/ Therapy Leads in each service area.  West London has a strong AHP leadership team and a wider OT management within the trust which is supportive of staff and their development needs.  There is an existing across trust AHP Training Programme as well as other training opportunities internally.  Staff have been supported with developing their skills across the 4 pillars of practice within trust opportunities and external training as identified by PDR. You will be a part of embedding the AHP strategy.

Main duties of the job

You will carry a clinical caseload which will include;

• Assessment and treatment of patients within each service line for an array of conditions and to determine clinical reasoning and Occupational Therapy treatments in line with your case formulations.
• To provide a client-centred occupational therapy service to a defined caseload of service users, working with multi-disciplinary team members and the occupational therapy team.
• To work as part of a team within the multi-disciplinary Team for the best interests of the caseload.
• Provide initial assessments, crisis and care plans of service users 18 to 65 years of age with a variety of mental health conditions.
• Supervision of junior and support staff.

To plan, conduct and review audits and service development projects.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.