Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-CH7123410
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newham Community and Inpatient settings
- Town
- Newham, London
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum Inc Outer HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist (Rotational)
Band 6
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Rotational Occupational Therapist Newham
Due to the promotion of one of our therapists, we have an opportunity to join our popular Band 6 rotation within Newham! This rotation gives experience across a range of services and currently includes Acute inpatient mental health (triage and treatment wards), Community adult mental health services, Home treatment team (HTT), Diagnostic memory services, Older Adult community team and potentially Dementia inpatient services. Rotations are 9 months in duration.
Rotations might be further expanded and changed to reflect the needs of our community, the development needs of our therapists and our service needs.
The development of all our Occupational Therapists are important to us. You will have access to peer and professional supervision, monthly educational sessions, CPD-sessions, quality improvement training and early leadership development. We value and celebrate diversity and are interested in any unique skills and life experiences you could bring to the role!
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to be part of the Senior Occupational Therapy rotation, providing meaningful Occupational Therapy (OT) input across Adult and Older Adult Mental Health services in Newham.
As a rotational therapist, the exact job plan, skills and knowledge depends on the rotation. However, across rotations there is a particular focus on service users’ recovery and social inclusion goals, via both individual and group work. The ability to understand first and foremost what matters to the individual, is central to the role. Sound clinical reasoning drawing on a range of models, theories, lived experience and specialist skills will be developed. It is also important to draw on your dual training in both physical and mental health.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy
- Experience of CPD and role development activities
Desirable criteria
- Practice Placement Educator Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in clinical mental health setting and/or demonstrable experience highly related to the clinical field.
- Evidence of Service Development activities.
- Experience of working as part of a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of managing own caseload
- Experience of individual and group work
- Experience of staff/student supervision
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of how mental health difficulties impact upon occupational functioning and performance.
- Knowledge of current National legislation, policies and guidelines relevant to adult community mental health and their application.
- Occupational and vocational assessment skills
- Specialist clinical skills to carry out OT interventions: therapeutic and activity based interventions; remedial training and cognitive behavioral interventions and psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions
- Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of OT interventions including knowledge of outcome measures.
- Ability to manage a complex clinical caseload
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment
- Ability to communicate difficult information
- Ability to undertake supervision
- Ability to assess and manage verbal aggression and risk of physical aggression in inpatient and community settings, reducing risks to those involved.
- Ability to plan and work with statutory and non-statutory services around clinical issues • Word-processing/IT skills
- Good organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to maintain the profile of OT within a MDT and the organisation
Desirable criteria
- Ability to plan, prioritise and coordinate clinical service provision.
- Ability to provide training and presentations
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
- Georgia Ntzimani
- Job title
- Directorate Lead for Occupational Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02075404207
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