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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; West Wing; CEME Centre; Marsh Way; Rainham; Essex; RM13 8GQ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

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Ref: 395-RR048-24-A Vacancy ID: 6434948

Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist

Closed for applications on: 28-Jun-2024 12:25

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 28-Jun-2024 12:25

Location

Site: Mellmead House
Address: 4 Orchard Close
Town: Wanstead
Postcode: E11 2DH
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum plus HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

NELFT fully promotes OT professional/personal training and development, monthly supervision, CPD, annual appraisal, audit, research and work based Quality improvement and innovation. There is the opportunity to support junior staff, OT students and apprentices. As part of the OT workforce, you will work in collaboration with the Borough Lead OT to contribute towards the development of the OT services in the community teams.

In alignment with the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults, our aims include a greater focus on prevention, wellbeing and delivering more integrated and personalised care closer to home. At the core of the framework is the idea that primary, secondary, specialists, and social care along with housing, voluntary sectors and commissioned providers work together in a unified way with people who use services at the centre of service provision and much more involved in their care. All team members will receive training in recovery and social inclusion, Open Dialogue and Trauma Informed approaches to care. In addition, groups of staff will also be invited to undertake further specialised training in an area of chosen expertise. We will support additional training and have a skills matrix to support existing and all new staff.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
BSc/MSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
Current HCPC registration
Evidence of the post- registration education and training

Desirable criteria

Practice Placement Educator
Relevant post registration courses

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An understanding of the implications of providing mental health services to residents of a multi demographic borough
An understanding of current governmental policy in relation the provision of mental health and community care.
The content and application in practice of the OT Code of Conduct
Able to undertake service user assessment and care planning
Knowledge of MOHO and other OT assessment tools
Knowledge of Recovery and Social Inclusion in MH
Able to work with service users and carers as partners in care
IT literate e.g. Word processing, internet and e-mail use.

Desirable criteria

Understanding of Integrated Care Services
Knowledge about Mental Health Act.

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
Able to provide evidence based care that is responsive to service user need
Able to use own initiative and make decisions
Experience of coping with change

Other

Essential criteria

To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
Commitment to Professional development
Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Team player
Professional attitude and appearance
Effective role model
Able to motivate others
Ability to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service

Experience

Essential criteria

Demonstrates comprehensive clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this specialty.
Significant experience of working in an acute hospital/community mental health setting at band 6 or above within the relevant clinical area
Experience of team/service development
Experience of supporting and supervision of junior therapists, student therapists and assistants.
A specialist knowledge across a range of therapy practices, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of therapy.
Good understanding of working within community mental health service.
Understanding of current legislation and application to Occupational Therapy.
An ability to prioritise and organise own workload, demonstrating ability to prioritise clinical and managerial duties
An ability to cope with a range of complex options, finds solutions, analyse, compare and decide on appropriate course of action
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including an ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information.
Working as a band 6 OT for a minimum of 18 months.
Management and Leadership skills