Job overview

If you are looking for a rare and exciting opportunity and you have a particular interest in Forensic community services, then this is the position for you.

The post holder will join an already established wider Occupational Therapy service and will be based within the Specialist Forensic Community team.

As a recovery support worker you will be managed by the Occupational Therapy team working across medium and low secure services, accountable to the Head of AHP and Rehabilitation.

A core part of the role will involve facilitating group activities with service users in the community, working with individuals to facilitate their engagement skills in their local area. Considerable focus will be on transitions for service users between in-patient and community settings in the locality.

This will entail in-reach work into the inpatient settings and supporting the service users to move out of long term secure care into various supported packages of care, which might include hostels or independent living. The role will consist of facilitating groups across the different hubs London. The role will also involve supporting community service users step down in levels of accommodation or discharge to local community mental health teams,

Main duties of the job

·         To support service users to identify their needs, interests and aspirations and work towards their identified goals.

·         To actively promote healthy lifestyles and behaviours.

·         To plan and deliver a range of diversional activities that meet service users’ needs and assist the clinical team in the assessment of the service user’s mental health needs.

·         To support the clinical team in providing a therapeutic environment and structuring a service user’s day, planning and delivering appropriate diversional activities and engaging with service users.

·         To facilitate group and individual activities in a range of environments – ward, site, and community.

·         To support service users with involvement and participation in activity and their treatment, as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

·         Support clinical caseload under the direction of an occupational therapist.

·         Support occupational therapist with input into standardised assessments for ADL reports, functional axe, and CPA reports.

·         To ensure documentation is accurate and reflective.

·         Diaries and stats are outcome on RIO.

Further duties outlined on attached candidate pack.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.  

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.  We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.  

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units. 

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.