Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Inpatient
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (1 year)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-AAUC-6267595-PB-A
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £30,892 - £34,681 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust is welcoming all AHP’s to join an innovative and rapidly growing Acute and Urgent Care Service Line.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (Ward 1) and contribute to the implementation of new systems working within a supportive MDT Team.
The Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a 10 bedded unit offering Trust-wide service for male service users. The Occupational Therapist is a key professional contributor to the Acute Care Forum, shaping and monitoring the quality of service provision against set standards. As a key member of the MDT the successful applicant will hold a designated caseload and be able to work independently providing OT specific assessments, addressing occupational performance, enabling the client in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure. The service provision is 24 hours seven days a week. The teams are Multidisciplinary and you will have a role in mentoring and supporting junior staff. There is a team approach to the management of the caseload.
We are a multi-disciplinary service that recognises the need for joint working across many services and by offering specialist bespoke perinatal interventions.
Main duties of the job
You will have excellent assessment, risk managing and communication skills and a commitment to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with service users and carers. You are expected to be confident in decision making and be autonomous in your practice; and responsive to carry out routine and urgent assessments using specialist mental health and occupational therapy assessment including MOHO tools.
The successful candidate should have the ability to:
- Develop competences and expertise in both self and others in order to gain a satisfactory standard and deliver results within agreed timescales.
- Be persistent in problem solving, seeking solutions through the expertise of both self and others, researching the facts with care and resolving problems in a timely and thorough manner.
- Remain self-controlled and be prepared to listen to what others say and feel, deal with conflict in an accommodating manner and use practicality as a method for reaching a solution.
- Provide optimum levels of leadership, if required, encouragement, training and support.
- Mentor, counsel, coach and generally support those who are not confident in their area of competence, building morale and personal esteem and generally encouraging others to give their best performance.
- Be firm and persistent when expressing views and provide thoughts and ideas to overcome problems once the situation has been properly debated.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To manage a caseload of clients with complex needs and challenging behaviour within psychiatric intensive care, using evidence based /client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and appraisal.
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust OT Service
- To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement
- To use a range of evidence based Occupational therapy assessments to determine individual patient’s need, contributing to bespoke and individualised care-plans.
- To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the service, holding responsibility for defined projects.
- To participate in and contribute to local service development and strategy.Se
- To contribute to the Trustwide occupational therapy strategy (Model of Human Occupation and Clinical Specialist forums).
- To undertake regular audit and R&D activities.
- To provide training and support across the Trust’s Occupational therapy workforce.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of carrying a caseload of service users with complex and diverse needs in a mental health setting
- Experience of working in an inter-professional team.
- Experience of working within a multi-agency environment.
- Experience of working in a range of mental health settings
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural context
- Experience of maintaining a written record of continual professional development
- Experience of individual and groupwork
- Active involvement in service change/development
- Experience of writing specialist occupational therapy reports
- Experience of clinical audit
- Post-graduate clinical experience highly related to clinical field
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Experience of being a practice placement educator
- Experience of using mental health services as a service user, or carer, relative, friend of a service user.
- Experience of publishing own work
- Post-registration research activity
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registration to practice in the UK
- Evidence of post registration training relevant to mental health practice
- Training in the theory and application of the model of human occupation within the first 4 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree in subject relevant to clinical post
- Practice placement educators course within one year of appointment
- Leadership training
- Apple registration
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
- Natasha Cumberland
- Job title
- Deputy Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3513 6488
- Additional information
Shelley Ralls Lead OT [email protected] on mobile : 07977 438 213
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