Job summary
Employer heading
Primary Care Mental Health Occupational Therapist
Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
About the role
We are seeking to appoint a skilled and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to be part a new Primary Care Mental Health Team in Lewisham
Main duties of the job
You will be amongst a Lewisham wide team of Occupational Therapists and together will be responsible for the delivery of a recovery focussed OT interventions which addresses the needs of patients accessing mental health services, within a stepped care model.
The role could includes professional development and integration to the PCMHT, which includes case work , MDT formulation and assessment.
Working for our organisation
About the location:
You will be based at Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
About the location:
You will be based at Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD, or at southbrook road where the neighbourhood 2 team also have their base
About the team
This is an exciting development in Mental Health Service provision in Lewisham and an opportunity to work across the borough promoting the group programme and occupationally focussed interventions. The service aims to provide proactive, strength-based care for service users experiencing mental health problems in a primary care setting using a stepped care model.
The primary Care Mental Health Teams provide care and support to service users who require a level of care above that available through general medical services, but do not require secondary care mental health intervention.
The team also support service users who have on-going, low support needs and those who are transitioning from secondary care mental health services to primary care services.
The Primary Mental Health Team incorporates roles in social prescribing and care navigation, drawing on the expertise of third sector partner providers. In addition to occupational therapists, the team comprises mental health advisors, peers support workers, nurses, social workers, consultant psychiatrist and will be co located with MIND and IAPT psychological services and the service user network SUN.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Occupational Therapist;
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate training relevant to Mental Health
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience including individual and group work
- Experience of advising and supporting /supervising junior staff and students
Desirable criteria
- Working with mental health service users (pre or post qualification)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management
- High level understanding of Mental Health disorders and treatment models
- Applied knowledge of legislation relevant to Mental Health and Specialist practice where appropriate
- Applied knowledge of the principles of CPA (Care Programme Approach)
Desirable criteria
- Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions and outcome measures, relevant to client group
- A sound understanding the dynamics of a team and have the ability to work effectively within that
Other
Essential criteria
- Commitment to student supervision
- Commitment to lifelong learning
Desirable criteria
- Open to new ideas and awareness of general issues that might have relevance to service users involvement
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leonie Down
- Job title
- Head of Occupational Therapy in Lewisham
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07858686409
- Additional information
susan farmer
Clinical community OT lead
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