Job summary
We are seeking a motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist who would enjoy working in a small friendly team dedicated to Occupational Therapy (OT) provision for Haringey Community Mental Health Services. We encourage you to apply if you are keen to use your core OT skills, to champion high quality and innovative OT interventions across a number of community mental health teams, and to develop leadership skills within the service and across the Trust through training, individual and peer supervision opportunities. This role offers the chance to work creatively, offering strengths-focused individual and group interventions that empower and bring lasting change for our clients, in their homes and the local vibrant community of Haringey. Please apply or call for futher information, if you are interested.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will hold a case load and work as an Occupational Therapist across Haringey adult community mental health services, to provideassessment, plan and implement interventions, evaluate treatment and ensure safe discharge. They will offer time limited interventions with clear goals, using a recovery-focused approach that enhances daily living skills and supports engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities, for service users across the community. The occupational therapist will be deputy to the Lead and will mentor the Band 5 OT, whilst working closely with the supporting clinical team and offering clinical supervision to other junior staff in the MDT, including Employment Support.

About us
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:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

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.

Job responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users in the community and be key clinician for the service
• Deliver occupational therapy assessments and interventions including groups and individual
• Support people to develop daily living skills, independence, and meaningful activity
• Supervise Band 5 OT, students and other junior staff members, offering support from an OT perspective
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies
• Contribute to recovery-focused care planning and safe discharge
• Engage in community-based and home visit work
• Be an active member of the community occupational therapy team within the borough and across the care group
• Act as deputy to team lead when required, taking on some management tasks and attendance at senior clinical and network meetings

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• BSc or PGDip/MSc Occupational Therapy

Desirable

• Additional qualification in mental health

Experience/work history
Essential

• 1 year post-graduate experience as Band 5 OT

Desirable

• Experience of working within mental health setting

Supervising/mentoring
Essential

• Experience of supervising/mentoring junior team members or students

Desirable

• Additional supervision training undertaken

Additional information
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Haringey Community Occupational Therapy Lead
SMITH, Adrienne
adrienne.smith@nhs.net
02087025758