# Clinical Specialist OT

**Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Islington
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Older Adults South Home Treatment Team (HTT) is a multidisciplinary team that provides care and treatment to older adults over the age of 70, or with a diagnosis of dementia, who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Support is provided in their own home as an alternative to hospital admission.

The role of the Occupational Therapist will be to undertake comprehensive functional assessments to establish service users' level of function and motivation in attending to activities of daily living. The OT will recommend aids, adaptations, sensory support, and other strategies to promote function, independence and wellbeing.

In addition, the post holder will undertake generic mental health assessments, examinations, and follow up visits. As a Clinical Specialist, the post holder will support service user flow through autonomous decision making when assessing acutely unwell service users at risk of a hospital admission and determining whether home treatment is a safe alternative.

The salary for this position ranges from £47,951 to £56,863 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS.

Benefits of working with North London NHS Foundation Trust include:

- Opportunities for leadership development and a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

- Flexible working and various health and wellbeing initiatives

- NHS discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme

- Excellent internal staff network

The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at different locations as needed.

Essential qualifications and skills include:

- Current HCPC registration

- Evidence of further post-registration relevant training

- Ability to work autonomously

- Competence in using computers and keyboards

- Experience of working in a senior specialist capacity with people living with mental illness or dementia

- Experience of working with family members and carers of individuals with mental illness

Desirable qualifications and skills include:

- Sensory Integration training

- Experience of working in a mental health/crisis team

- Experience in supervising and appraising junior staff and students

## Skills

### Required
- HCPC registration
- Autonomous working
- Computer competence
- Mental health experience
- Dementia experience

### Nice to have
- Sensory Integration training
- Mental health/crisis team experience
- Supervision and appraisal experience

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