NHS Jobs • London W9 2NW

Senior Community Occupational Therapist

About this role

See attached Job description and Person Specification for further information on the job role requirements. Key ResponsibilitiesClinical1.1 To provide manage a caseload of service users with multiple, enduring and complex mental health needs through provision of therapeutic care and treatment in the individuals own home and othercommunity venues.1.2 To provide specialist, culturally appropriate, evidence based occupational therapy assessments for service users within the hub in order to establish and meet their occupational needs.1.3 To provide full vocational needs assessment, advice and on-going intervention related to an individuals vocational needs.1.4 To select and use validated standardised assessment tools routinely and in practice, exhibiting clinical reasoning skills; to include the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) assessments.1.5 To apply specialist clinical knowledge and skills to carry out evidence based occupational therapy interventions, both individual and in groups, which are underpinned by relevant theoretical approaches and in line with the Trusts Research and Development Strategy; to lead andsupervise junior staff in this practice as required.1.6 To plan, implement and review individually tailored programmes of intervention using individual and group work approaches.1.7 To support service users and colleagues to ensure that care plans are developed in partnership with the individual and that they reflect recovery goals. These should be strengths-based and orientedtowards reinforcing a positive identity and developing valued social roles.1.8 To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions against clear aims, objectives and outcome measures in line with evidence based practice and in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals.1.9 To identify opportunities and needs for group work in the community and to plan, implement, facilitate and evaluate community groups which promote social inclusion for service users.1.10 To establish links with the CNWL Recovery College; and as appropriate, deliver courses within the college alongside peer trainers.1.11 To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service users social and physical environment.1.12 To determine the impact of mental and physical conditions on service users functional ability and