Job overview

The post offers the opportunity to develop clinical leadership skills and enhance the Occupational Therapy services across the  pathway, ensuring the occupational needs of service users are addressed and providing an occupational therapy perspective on service delivery.

You will work alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as a range of other agencies. You will also be contributing to the management of the referral system and assisting the team manager with quality improvement and other specific clinical tasks.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for a complex clinical caseload using evidence-based practice to assess, treat and evaluate interventions.
• Lead on the development and delivery of clinical occupational therapy.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team to support service users in the learning disability community forensic team.
• Develop and sustain partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the recovery pathway of service users as they progress from an inpatient setting into the community by instilling hope and having a genuine impact on their quality of life.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care