Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2345-A
- Employer
- 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chase Farm Hospital
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Falls and Enhanced Observation Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Enfield's Older Adults Mental Health Inpatient Services. We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate Occupational Therapist (OT) to lead in the management of falls and enhanced observation of patients on our older adult wards. This post will initially be for a 12-month secondment/contract.
The Oaks is a 20 Bed ward that provides assessment and treatment for service users with a variety of mental health difficulties who have needs that would be best met in an older adult inpatient setting. Silver Birches is a 13 Bed ward that provides treatment for service users who have an established diagnosis of dementia. Cornwall Villa is a 13-Bed ward that provides treatment for patients who have a diagnosis of a functional mental illness and require a longer period of treatment and rehabilitation prior to discharge.
The Falls and Enhanced Observation Lead will work with the ward MDT, inpatient therapies team, MHSOP Lead Nurse and Divisional AHP Lead to review patients who have been placed on enhanced observation to either prevent falls or to manage other behaviours and formulate support plans that ensure the safety of the service users and others while promoting the independence and enablement and providing care in the least restrictive way.
Main duties of the job
• To review all patients who are on Enhanced Observation on The Oaks, Silver Birches and Cornwall Villa at Chase Farm Hospital
• To formulate support/care plans for all patient on Enhanced Observation to remove the need for Enhanced Observation.
• To lead on the older adults Enhanced Observation QI and provide meaningful data on the measures implemented for the reduction in use of Enhanced Observation
• To support the Head of Profession Occupational Therapy /AHP lead in providing comprehensive, evidence based activities of continuing professional development for occupational therapists/ AHP across the Trust.
• Be responsible for the implementation of outcomes from the older adults Enhanced Observation QI including the training of staff, use of innovative adaptive equipment, ensuring adherence to the Trust Falls and Enhanced Observation policy
• Ensuring national guidance and best practice is implemented, whilst meeting the Trust's Clinical Governance agenda
• To implement relevant National and Local policy and guidelines into clinical practice through policy/ protocol development, teaching/training, evaluation and reporting.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
· We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
· NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
· Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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
- Take a lead role the management of Enhanced Observation on The Oaks, Cornwall Villa and Silver Birches, including clinical audit, monitoring reported falls, data analysis and reporting, education and training, in order to ensure quality improvements focusing on the fundamentals of care.
- Support with the delivery of training including falls prevention and Enhanced Observation
- Act as a professional resource/role model in supporting teams in providing quality of care.
- Maintain a professional portfolio demonstrating clinical practice and skills
- Provide clinical and professional advice to Matrons and ward managers and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) particularly in regard to Occupational Therapy and to falls management.
- Take a lead role in the development of clinical policies and protocols across the Trust.
- Take a lead role in therapeutic environmental audits on the wards to ensure a safe environment that minimises risks and hazards.
- Challenge practice and identify competency issues.
Work with Matrons, Ward Managers and AHP colleagues to ensure the sustainability of practice development initiatives to reduce the need for Enhanced Observation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered OT
- MSc/BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy
- Evidence of CPD/reflective practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of other relevant Postgraduate education/ relevant CPD
- Membership of RCOT/specialist networks
- Practice placement Educator Course
- Masters or post graduate papers in relevant areas
- Leadership and Management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of developing and improving services.
- Experience of working with adults with mental health and physical health problems and an ability to confidently treat them.
- Experience of working with people with challenging behavior, potential risk factors and retractions this may pose on the therapeutic process.
- Able to use a range of treatment skills; to include cognitive behaviour therapy, goal setting, sensory work, and graded practical activities.
- Experience of working with people within and inpatient and community settings.
- Ability to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and clear clinical reasoning for OT interventions
- Experience of overseeing, planning, monitoring and evaluating therapy programmes to ensure the most effective use of clinical priorities, within own and team practices.
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration experience in a mental health setting.
- Involvement in research and clinical audit
- Able to critically appraise literature and research and use to inform service development
- Skills and experience in carrying out research.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent Organisational, Leadership, Team building skills
- Confidence to work autonomously and use own initiative.
- Effective written communication skills to include assessment and treatment documentation and formal clinical reports for MD team and outside agencies.
- Effective caseload and time management skills, including the ability to prioritise and problem solve.
- Ability to carry out detailed functional assessments and provide clear clinical reasoning for interventions.
- Ability to determine and record clear and relevant treatment plans.
- Able to use a range of treatment skills and to apply these to either group or individual work.
Desirable criteria
- Able to critically appraise literature and research and use to inform own practice.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly according to client/service needs.
- Receptive to changing environments and an ability to promote positive approaches to implementing changes according to service and client need.
- Experienced and passionate about service user involvement and co-production.
- Commitment to work as a proactive team member with a “Can do attitude”
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to be flexible in working hours
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Physically fit to undertake duties as specified in the job description
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable to manage fluctuating work demands.
- Ability to promote self and the service
- Responsible attitude to own learning and development including proactive use of supervision and training.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Stephen Godfrey
- Job title
- Enfield Older Adults Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8702 3022
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