Occupational Therapist

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the newly developed Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) Community Team in South West London & St George's Mental Health Trust. The forensic service sits within the Specialist Service Line of the Trust and is a provider within the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) Forensic Provider Collaborative (PC)., The post-holder will provide Occupational therapy input to the Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) Community Team in South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The FIND Community Team works with adults with a diagnosis of a Learning Disability and/or Autism who also experience co-morbid mental illness alongside offending behaviours which have brought them into contact with forensic services.

The postholder will develop and facilitate community-based groups and individual interventions based on occupational needs. They will contribute to identifying appropriate opportunities to support community integration and participation for this service user group. The occupational therapist will be skilled in adapting interventions to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities. Interventions with service users will occur in community settings, hostels, at the hospital and in the service user's homes. This includes focusing on social inclusion work surrounding self-care, productivity (getting into employment or college) and leisure (participating in interests or group activities).

The team will support in facilitating discharge planning of South West London patients from the Oak Unit and from Independent Sector secure services by enabling direct transfer to the FIND community caseload.

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 ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.