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- Prif leoliad
- Therapies
- Gradd
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Cyfnod Penodol: 2 flynedd (Fixed term: 2 years)
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 294-CORP-7420788-FZ
- Cyflogwr
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Springfield Hospital
- Tref
- Tooting
- Cyflog
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Clinical Specialist OT -Learning Disabilities & Autism
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Fixed Term: 2 Years | Full-Time: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Springfield Hospital (covering all sites)
Are you a passionate and experienced occupational therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Join our new dynamic team as a clinical specialist OT and contribute to transforming the quality of care for individuals with mental health needs, learning disabilities, and autism in acute inpatient settings.
This exciting role is part of the Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme (MHLDA IQTP), a national initiative dedicated to improving outcomes and experiences for service users and their families. Learn more about the programme here.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
About the Role:
As an OT, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to identified clients .
This includes:
- Leading the implementation of specialist OT interventions across inpatient services.
- Supporting service users with complex needs, particularly those with learning disabilities and neurodiversity.
- Driving research, quality improvement initiatives, and innovative care approaches.
- Acting as a role model, supervisor, and mentor for less experienced staff within the MDT.
You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team and fostering collaborative relationships within the Trust and beyond, ensuring inclusivity, resilience, and hope in care delivery.
What We’re Looking For:
- A Registered Occupational Therapist with extensive experience of working in Mental Health Services who;
- Has worked at a senior level to lead and embed positive clinical practice
- Has also developed or started to develop, their clinical expertise, to expand to learning disability, autism and/or neurodiversity
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
· To complete specialist assessments and interventions, including providing individualised and client-centred care plans and interventions.
· To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of disability on occupational performance and provide training and advice on lifestyles changes and environmental solutions to the client’s social and physical needs.
· To promote equality of outcome for service users that reflects their mental health needs and those of ethnicity, gender, culture physical health and age.
· To promote social inclusion and physical and mental well-being using evidence-based practice. This is underpinned by the principles of hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention.
· To independently manage a clinical caseload of service user with complex mental health needs
· To apply advanced clinical reasoning to identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan, using specialist mental health and occupational therapy assessments, including Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) tools in conjunction with other relevant theoretical perspectives.
· To exercise independent clinical professional judgement in complex clinical cases and difficult clinical situations, referring to team members when necessary.
· To consider both physical and mental health needs as part of the occupational therapy process.
· To plan and implement specialist individual and/or group interventions collaboratively, to enable service users to achieve valued goals and satisfactory occupational performance outcome.
· To identify any significant risk factors in line with local policies, with support from senior staff
· To lead on the development of therapeutic programmes and to work within clinical pathways and protocols with reference to the MoHO.
· To facilitate training across the Trust in working with this client group and to supervise and provide support to OTs working with identified clients.
· To advise on appropriate outcome measures and evaluate effectiveness of therapy interventions and quality of clinical decisions in conjunction with service users/carers, other professionals etc.
· To identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, complying with London Child Protection Procedures on the management of child protection issues and those of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, making appropriate referrals and liaising closely with colleagues within Children’s Services as required.
· If required to visit clients alone at their homes or in the community to adhere with the Trust and Team Lone Working Policies
Manyleb y person
Education, Training & Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- Masters degree / post degree study in subject relevant to clinical post or equivalence of knowledge and skills base attained through further training, short courses, relevant study
- Registration to practice in the UK (HPC registered)
- Practice placement educators’ course within one year of appointment
- Evidence of post registration training or experience relevant to learning disabilities and mental health practice
Meini prawf dymunol
- Evidence of further professional development related to management and leadership
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience in a senior professional role (Band 7 or above)
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration at a senior level including partnership working with other statutory and voluntary organizations.
- Experience of service development.
- Experience of supervision and appraisal and addressing performance issues
- Experience of working in a range of mental health settings including with learning disabilities and/ or forensic mental health
- Experience of carrying a caseload of service users with complex and diverse needs in a mental health setting
- Post-graduate clinical experience highly related to clinical field
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural context
- Experience of maintaining a written record of continual professional development
- Experience of individual and groupwork
- Experience of being a practice placement educator
- Experience of writing specialist occupational therapy reports
- Experience of clinical audit
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of publishing own work
- Post-registration research activity
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Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Helen Miles
- Teitl y swydd
- Head of Therapies
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Mandy Billingham, Deputy Head of Therapies [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust yn Proffesiynau Perthynol i Iechyd neu bob sector