Band 6 Occupational Therapist

We are looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our established Occupational Therapy Team at the Woodlands Unit. The unit has two adult mental health wards and this role will be embedded on Millbrook Ward but will work across the unit collaboratively with OT colleagues to provide Occupational Therapy Activities of Daily Living assessments, treatment and intervention on an individual and group basis.

The Occupational Therapy Team consists of a Band 7 and a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, alongside two Occupational Therapy Assistants. The team work closely with Psychiatry, Nursing and Psychological Therapies and out community partners to ensure quality interventions and a safe and timely discharge back to the community for service users.

• To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, using specialist mental health & OT assessment tools & treatment techniques
• To work with service users in a variety of settings in order to provide the most effective assessment & interventions
• To plan & implement service user led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals

To ensure service users health, social, cultural and spiritual needs are considered at all times

To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs

To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes

To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability

To assess the occupational needs of service users and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions

To identify appropriate & inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload

To manage effective discharge ensuring service user and all relevant agencies are given relevant information

To contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members o

f staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sophie Irvine Job title: Senior Occupational Therapist Email address: sophie.irvine@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 8308 3100