Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Would you like to work in an innovative trauma informed team, where there is a strong focus on staff development and delivering high quality care?

An exciting and rare opportunity has opened up to join our Harrow Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) We are looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our well-established, diverse team and  supportive Community Mental Health team (CMHT)  based in Harrow Wealdstone.  We want you to bring your unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to our OT team as diversity makes us stronger. You will have the opportunity to specialise your skills in a number of areas, including :

• Sensory integration for service users with complex emotional needs and neuro-diverse needs;
• Regular Trauma Informed Approaches training and team formulation
• Weekly In-service training covering a number of skills (Motivational Interviewing, Crisis Management, risk assessments, substance misuses, various psychological therapies and more.
• Model of Creative Ability Training
• Offering OT specific one-to-one and group interventions such as Recovery Pathway, Recovery Through Activity, Sensory Awareness

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You will have an OT-specific caseload, consisting of assessment, groupwork and individual interventions as well as contributing towards our Community Psychosocial Therapies offer with our Psychology colleagues. We work within the Recovery Framework and Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) encouraging independence, social integration and the achievement of personalised goals. You will have the opportunity to use your skills and creativity to contribute to the development and implementation of treatment programs, pathways and initiatives in order for us to deliver high quality, evidence-based interventions that improve service users' functional abilities, independence and overall quality of life.

Applicants must have a qualification in Occupational Therapy and be HCPC registered in order to be considered for the post.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

Working for our organisation

OT in CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes an AHP director, Trust wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs. This has the vast benefit of ensuring representation of our profession at all levels - both strategically and operationally.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R&D strategy, R& D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. This enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision.

We actively support the next generation of OTs through apprenticeships, student placements and the promotion of the profession as a career in schools. We are proud of the diversity in our workforce but have invested time in supporting and developing this further through our BAME OT group.

We recognise that the step between student and professional needs support so we have invested fully in our Band 5s development through robust supervision, a preceptorship programme and internal training. Success at preceptorship enables them to then be an educator for OT students. Career development opportunities are available and many of our Band 5s chose to stay with us in senior posts.