Senior Occupational Therapist | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist who is developing their career in mental health and is excited to take on a senior role. This is integral to help us deliver our plans to transform our community mental health services, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The transformation of our community mental health services will lead to truly integrated health and social care for adults in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey who have serious mental illness. The Occupational Therapy Pathway is integral to the transformation of services and offers our service users goals based, recovery focused intervention offers. The Senior Occupational Therapist will be working alongside a junior therapist providing specific Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention in line with the Model of Human Occupation. They will also be collaborating with Occupational Therapists who work in the other locality teams, led by our Lead OT. The trust is committed to the development of Occupational Therapists and the successful candidate will have access to CPD opportunities, the Beyond Preceptorship programme (if appropriate) and AHP forums within Barnet and across the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP).

• The post holder will work closely with the OT and Therapy Lead, the Lead OT for community services and community teams to embed occupational therapy specific roles across the community mental health services of the Barnet.
• The post holder will hold a case load and work as an occupational therapist across a Barnet community core hub, to provide assessment, plan and implement interventions, evaluate treatment, and ensure safe discharge. In particular the post holder will embed rehabilitation principles and develop the rehabilitation offer within the core hub.
• The post holder will provide both specialist occupational therapy assessments and offer a strengths-based, recovery focused approach with the aim of enhancing daily living skills, and engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities for service users across the community.
• The occupational therapist will work across services providing specific time limited interventions with clear goals established with the service user and in conjunction with the supporting clinical team.
  
  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: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 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.