Job overview

Band 6 OT

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.

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.   

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. 

·       Supervision of junior and support staff. 

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

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and   Hammersmith & Fulham).  We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.