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Job summary

Main area
Allied Health Professionals
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
455-NLFT-0184
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Peckwater Centre
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 Per annum including Inner HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/06/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. The North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model. 

Main duties of the job

 

       To work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary Locality Team, supporting the team to develop and provide a high-quality service. 

       To provide specific Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions, and evaluation of treatment in accordance with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics. 

       To produce high-quality specific MoHO assessments and reports to support service users to maximise their activity of daily living skills and lifestyle management. 

       To assess and recommend levels of care needed for packages of care to enable service users to live as independently as possible in the community. This will include liaising with other organisations and health care providers. 

       To take a lead role in assessing the needs of service users with complex mental and physical health needs. This includes falls risk minimisation work and the issuing and provision of equipment, aids, and adaptions. 

       To provide expert advice to the Locality Team promoting the role of occupational therapy and recovery work in care planning. 

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy: 
 

 

  1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

  2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

  3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

  4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

       To provide a high standard of clinical assessment, treatment and care in keeping with the philosophy and operational policies of the service.

       To provide a service that respects diversity and equality and supports the service user and their carers in line with recovery principles.

       To manage referrals to occupational therapy from the locality teams; to provide screening, prioritising and effectively managing the waiting list.

       To engage service users in developing self-management skills and promoting independence and autonomy where appropriate.

       To utilise agreed frameworks and guidance such as NICE; evidence based best practice and or local policy and procedure, as well as a range of profession specific tools, the post holder will actively assess, plan, and determine the care needs of service users. They will undertake and contribute to profession specific and/ or multi-disciplinary team reviews of care.

       To contribute and develop care plans in collaboration with the service user.  

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy or Sports science
  • Current registration with HPC or member of BACPR, CIMSPA, CEP UK or similar
Desirable criteria
  • Coaching qualification in sports and exercise
  • Motivational Interview Training

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working as an Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist/Sports technician in mental health services.
  • Experience of working in a Multi-disciplinary team with a clear understanding of Team dynamics
  • Experience of planning, running and evaluating assessment and treatment groups in mental health settings
  • Experience of undertaking specialist clinical assessment in the acute mental health field
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of contributing to staff and service user development initiatives
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and students.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Application of recovery principles in meeting the needs of service users.
  • Knowledge of the application of health and safety policy and assessment and management of clinical risk.
  • knowledge of the impact of substance misuse on mental health
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and support junior staff in effective time management
  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills in the English language with confident use of IT.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Catherine Namonda
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07966 526 183

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Address
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