Job overview

West London Forensic Services have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Occupational Therapy post based within our forensic secure services. Within these services, you will have the opportunity to work across Rehab, Acute, Dependency, and Vocational areas.  We also have further opportunities to rotate with our Women’s forensic services and Specialist community team.  This post is ideal for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and highly motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist.

This post allows the successful applicant to further develop and consolidate their Occupational Therapy knowledge in a highly supportive environment whilst learning and advancing their skills within the forensic mental health field. This post will allow you to practice the core foundational skills required to become a confident occupational therapist which includes OT-specific groups and assessments.

We provide weekly professional development meetings which include clinical teaching, growing in leadership and service development. We also offer extensive training around our assessment tool and provide newly qualified OTs preceptorship sessions which link in with the wider service and AHP education lead.

Occupational Therapy is a valued profession and is an integral part of an established and highly skilled multidisciplinary team, enabling service to engage in meaningful activity whilst supporting them with the skills they require for a successful transition between services and the community.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

§  Completing clinical assessments and reports

§  Supporting and guiding OT assistants. 

§  To work within the clinical team, managing your own caseload including assessment, implementing and evaluating treatment and applying specialist skills to support patients presenting with varied and complex conditions.

To initiate and carry out audits, to plan and implement changes as appropriate, and to understand the role of audit within clinical governance.

§  Contributing and leading to service development projects this including audits and quality improvement.

§  Taking the lead in chairing, writing, and reviewing the effectiveness of group meetings and minutes. This includes managing task allocations to the wider team.

§  Taking a lead for a vocational area ensuring risk management checks are in order.

§  Using ICT software to complete intervention plans that are accessible and visual for the client group you are working with.

§  Support with teaching and guidance to students

§  Managing a caseload ranging from 15 -18 patients.

§  Facilitating groups and individual sessions.

§  Administration tasks and wider team responsibilities

You will receive a structured induction, active support, direction and supervision from senior Occupational Therapy staff and have access to robust CPD opportunities.

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.