Adult Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Overview

Would you like to work in an innovative team, where there is a strong focus on staff development and delivering high quality care? We are looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our well-established, diverse team. We want you to bring your unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to our OT team as diversity makes us stronger.

The Adult Community Mental Health Hub serves a diverse and vibrant population with secondary mental health needs and severe and enduring mental health conditions. The Hub consists of medical staff, nurses, peer support workers, employment specialists and psychology/psychotherapy staff. The post holder will have the opportunity to develop and co-facilitate groups as part of the psychosocial Hub offer. We are located in Uxbridge and a 10-minute walk from the Town Centre;

the nearest underground station is Uxbridge (Piccadilly and Metropolitan Lines) or West Drayton Train Station. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in community mental health. The role is full-time, Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm with an option to work up to two days a week remotely.

Please Note:
Previous applicants need not apply

• To work as an OT in the Adult Community Mental Health Hub, providing a high quality service to service users.
• To provide OT assessments and intervention for service users under the care of the team, both in healthcare environments and people’s homes.
• To provide functional assessments and home assessments for prescribing adapted equipment, making recommendations and for accommodation needs.
• To provide evidence-based group interventions.
• To manage a caseload and be an allocated Named Worker autonomously.
• To work within the multidisciplinary team and support the overall functioning of the team.

The team will provide you with a friendly welcome and full induction which includes shadowing opportunities and visits to services. 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 who choose 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 to have 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.

Hillingdon has a wide range of resources and OTs work closely with services to support participation in the community. We work closely with our Adult Social Care and Voluntary Sector partners in our Borough.

Please see attached job description for full details and don’t hesitate to get in touch to find out more about the role.

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with HCPC
• Work or placement experience in a mental health setting

Desirable criteria

• Professional Body membership with RCoT and involvement in RCoT communities
• Training/ experience in Psychosocial interventions and other relevant training

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a mental health setting (voluntary or paid)
• Experience of group facilitation
• Application of core OT skills and processes

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrable understanding and experience of OT profession specific assessment tools (ie: MoHO)

Skills And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Can demonstrate an application of the OT process
• Demonstrates reflective practice
• Demonstrates patient-centred practice
• Ability to prioritise workload/ use own initiative
• Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a…