Job summary
- Main area
- Technical Instructor
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May need to work evenings and weekends)
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2083
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cumbria Villa, Chase Farm Hospital
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £29,460 - £31,909 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Technical Instructor
Band 4
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
Are you highly motivated, enthusiastic and compassionate? Then this is the job for you! We are looking for an experienced Band 4 Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor with; excellent communication skills and good organisational skills to work as part of the inpatient therapy team based at Cumbria Villa. Cumbria Villa is a new inpatient ward on the Chase Farm Hospital Site, aiming to open on 1st October 2024.
Cumbria Villa will be a mixed sex, 15-bed, inpatient general adult ward to support service users that currently have low intensity needs on a step-down pathway, from acute admissions towards discharge.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job include (as guided by the ward OT / supervisor / Therapy lead).
- Facilitate a variety of group activities i.e. cooking. This can also consist of functional sessions.
- Facilitate one to one intervention.
- Facilitate functional assessments as guided by the ward OT.
- Accompany the ward OT on home visits / community access.
- Have regular supervision & annual appraisal.
- Complete TI competencies during the 6-month probational period.
- Contribute to client care by liaising with the MDT.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work alongside the Occupational Therapist during the initial assessment period and support the induction process of the new admissions, this will include carrying out initial contact/ assessments/ Single Obs MOHOST.
- To liaise with the Occupational Therapist regarding the functional ability of individual patients and implementation of treatment programmes considering both physical and mental health conditions.
- To follow the referral process for patients attending sessions ensuring that appropriate security and risk procedures are adhered to.
- To ensure that a range of activities is available so that individual treatment programmes can be implemented.
- To work directly with carers and family members, within the bounds of patient confidentiality: gathering information, providing educational advice and support, facilitating planning and communication
- To ensure that treatment programmes and activities are carried out to a competent standard.
- To support the OT’s in maintaining the timetable of activities and to ensure that changes are communicated to patients and MDT appropriately.
- To facilitate group and individual activity sessions on and off wards, in accordance with directorate policies.
- To make links with outside community resources to aid the reintegration of patients back into the community.
To utilise specific skills within patient group sessions such as art, craft, cooking, smoking cessation and fitness as part of the patient’s individual treatment programme
Person specification
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- - experience of working with people with mental health problems within a health or social care setting
- - • Awareness of the role and clinical focus of Occupational Therapy
- • Experience of planning and running therapeutic groups and sessions.
Desirable criteria
- • Awareness of OT models eg MOHO or VdT MoCA and carrying out single obs MOHOSTs
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Effective skills in a range of activities Eg. gardening, art, cooking, crafts, reminiscence, exercise, music, relaxation
- • Ability to plan and lead practical and discussion groups independently.
Knowledge/Awareness/ Understanding
Essential criteria
- • A basic knowledge of Occupational Therapy.
- • A basic knowledge of mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, psychosis
- • Experience of planning and running therapeutic groups and sessions.
- • An understanding of risk assessment and risk management
Desirable criteria
- • Awareness of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and its significance for service users and impact on clinical practice
Education
Essential criteria
- • NVQ 3, Higher National Certificate ( HNC ), BTEC National Diploma, City and Guilds Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience and/or training
Other Essential Factors
Essential criteria
- • Professional manner towards clients and colleagues
- • Physical ability to participate in breakaway and PMVA training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Shamaya Robinson
- Job title
- Enfield OT and AHP Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032825792
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- Address
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- Telephone
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