Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The team currently offer an option of remote working one day a week)
- Job ref
- 333-J-KC-0873
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 pa inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist K&C Adult Community Mental Health Hub
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Two exciting opportunities have arisen for Band 5 Occupational Therapists with a motivation and enthusiasm for working in adult community mental health.
One vacancy is with the South Kensington and Chelsea Community Mental Health Hub and the other vacancy is with the North K&C Community Mental Health Hub. These posts forms part of a new OT structure within the team so will work alongside a Band 6 and Band 7 Occupational Therapist.
The South team is based in Nightingale Place, SW10, in between the Kings Road and Fulham Road. The North team is based at Hathaway House, W9 2BA, near Ladbroke Grove station and the Notting Hill. There are excellent transport links near both sites
The postholder will be a valued member of the team and will offer OT assessments and intervention for clients as well as supporting the overall work of the team by providing a Case Manager role for clients and some team duty cover with support from senior colleagues.
The team consists of medical staff, nurses, social workers, peer support workers, community navigators, employment specialists and psychology staff. The post holder will have opportunity to develop and co-facilitate groups as a part of the psychosocial offer for the hub.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in community mental health. The role is full time Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm with an option to work one day a week remotely.
Main duties of the job
- To work as an Occupational Therapist in the Adult Community Mental Health hub, providing a high quality service to clients.
- To provide OT assessments and intervention for clients under the care of the team.
- To provide functional assessments and home assessments for prescribing adapted equipment, making recommendations and for accommodation needs.
- To provide evidence based group interventions.
- To provide a case worker role for a designated number of clients with an occupational focus.
- To work within the multidisciplinary team and support the overall functioning of the team.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Working for our organisation
The team will provide you with a friendly welcome and full induction which includes shadowing opportunities and visits to services. We recognise that the step between student and professional needs support so we have invested fully in our Band 5s development through robust supervision, a preceptorship programme and internal training. Success at preceptorship enables further training to become an educator for OT students. Career development opportunities are available and many of our Band 5s chose to stay with us in senior posts.
There are excellent training and development opportunities available within CNWL in addition to local in house CPD opportunities. CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are a priority for us in CNWL we expect staff to be culturally competent, reflective and open to culturally diverse CPD opportunities.
Kensington and Chelsea have a wide range of resources and OTs work closely with services to support participation in the community. DirectMe.org – Find services to help support people living with mental illness in Kensington and Chelsea
CNWL Recovery & Wellbeing College :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached dob description for full details and don't hesitate to get in touch to find out more about the role.
Further information about the service can be found on this link:
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered with HCPC.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Member of RCOT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Some experience in a mental health setting (voluntary / student)
- Experience of group facilitation
- Application of core OT skills and OT process
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment
- Previous experience of using MOHO assessment tools.
Research and Development
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of Evidence Based Practice
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
- Audit experience
- Experience of MOHO
- Publications
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Can demonstrate an application of OT process.
- Is able to undertake caseload management.
- Clear understanding of risk assessment and management.
- Clear understanding of the assessment process and use of assessment tools.
- Demonstrates reflective practice
- Demonstrates service user centred practice
- Interest in a variety of therapeutic approaches and techniques: practical/creative/psycho-educational and psychodynamic.
- Ability to work creatively to engage service users.
- Ability to prioritise workload/use own initiative
- Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person.
- Ability to build constructive working relationships (colleagues, service users and carers).
- Demonstrates effective communication skills both written and verbal.
Desirable criteria
- Use of standardised assessment tools
- Presentation skills
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Essential criteria
- Is able to take responsibility
- Has excellent team skills.
- Has excellent time management and organisational skills
SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Has knowledge of OT theory related to practice
- Can demonstrate clear clinical reasoning skills.
- Knowledge of mental health conditions
- Awareness of local and national issues and relevant legislation.
- Has a clear concept of clinical models of practice.
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
- Has an understanding on the Recovery in mental health and Recovery principles
Desirable criteria
- AMPS Trained
- Supervision of students
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
- Shannon Morgan
- Job title
- Lead OT for South K&C CMHH
- Email address
- [email protected]
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