Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. The North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary Locality Team, supporting the team to develop and provide a high-quality service.
• To provide specific Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions, and evaluation of treatment in accordance with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics.
• To produce high-quality specific MoHO assessments and reports to support service users to maximise their activity of daily living skills and lifestyle management.
• To assess and recommend levels of care needed for packages of care to enable service users to live as independently as possible in the community. This will include liaising with other organisations and health care providers.
• To take a lead role in assessing the needs of service users with complex mental and physical health needs. This includes falls risk minimisation work and the issuing and provision of equipment, aids, and adaptions.
• To provide expert advice to the Locality Team promoting the role of occupational therapy and recovery work in care planning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of clinical assessment, treatment and care in keeping with the philosophy and operational policies of the service.
• To provide a service that respects diversity and equality and supports the service user and their carers in line with recovery principles.
• To manage referrals to occupational therapy from the locality teams; to provide screening, prioritising and effectively managing the waiting list.
• To engage service users in developing self-management skills and promoting independence and autonomy where appropriate.
• To utilise agreed frameworks and guidance such as NICE; evidence based best practice and or local policy and procedure, as well as a range of profession specific tools, the post holder will actively assess, plan, and determine the care needs of service users. They will undertake and contribute to profession specific and/ or multi-disciplinary team reviews of care.
• To contribute and develop care plans in collaboration with the service user.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.