Community Occupational Therapist - MACC Team

If you are excited about working in an innovative community team, this opportunity to work with the Multi Agency Care and Coordination Team (MACCT) is for you!

We are looking for someone who has excellent holistic personalised care skills, able to support clinicians to improve the physical & mental health and wellbeing of clients living in the borough of Haringey. Although this is advertised as Band 6 post, we are happy to accept applications from Band 5 in a development post to a band 6 dependent on achieving Band 6 competencies during the probation period.

The role is a great opportunity to work with other professionals in the team including Physiotherapists, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapist, Community Matrons, Mental Health Workers and Care & Dementia Navigators, supported by a fantastic administration and MDT coordinator team.

You will be committed to addressing Health and Social Inequalities for your clients and work towards the team purpose of; Managing health, wellbeing and preventing crises through innovative partnership working.

You will be supported to develop skills and competences and have the opportunity to stretch and develop your skills with the support of the team and with regular professional supervision.

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Job Summary

To provide high quality efficient and effective holistic occupational therapy assessment and intervention to the clients care coordinated within the MACCT MDT.

To provide specialist occupational therapy assessments and creative personalised treatment programmes co-produced alongside client’s strengths and their support network to support them to manage with complex health conditions both physical and psychological and to support the stabilisation of their social situations.

To promote good collaborative working links with partnership agencies across the health, social and voluntary sectors to ensure the clients have the best possible support network to prevent unplanned hospital admissions.

To be an active motivated member of the multidisciplinary team and participate in projects and service developments as identified by the successful candidates, their colleagues and managers including audits, quality improvement projects and the promotion of integrated personalised care approach. To provide support and clinical supervision to colleagues or junior staff, and to share specialist knowledge with others working within the MACC Team and the associated teams, hubs, care providers, clients and their support networks.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workfo

rce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Batehup Job title: AHP Clinical Lead - MACC Team Email address: sarah.batehup@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 3074 2958