# Occupational Therapist

**Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £36943.00 to £44900.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to join the Care Group 4 AHP service, covering Inpatient Acute and Same Day Emergency Care across North London NHS Foundation Trust. This vacancy is based at Dennis Scott Unit.

This is an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified Occupational Therapist or someone looking to develop their skills in a well-supported setting. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, be organised, and ready to face the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment.

The post holder will hold a case load and work as an occupational therapist across the three acute mental health wards in Dennis Scott Unit, providing assessment, planning and implementing interventions, evaluating treatment, and ensuring safe discharge.

The post holder will be required to deliver a comprehensive Occupational Therapy Service for service users on the inpatient wards and contribute to the Inpatient Therapy Group Programme.

As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide a variety of interventions, promoting a recovery approach and social inclusion.

The post-holder will ensure that their practice meets the requirements of this clinical group and is in keeping with current evidence-based practices.

The post holder will have supervisory responsibility for junior staff and student practitioners working in the unit.

Benefits include:

- NHS Discounts

- Generous annual leave

- NHS pension scheme

- Excellent internal staff network

- Flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives

- Leadership behaviours and managers programme

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

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide comprehensive occupational therapy assessments

- Plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based occupational therapy interventions

- Establish and maintain professional therapeutic relationships

- Manage and prioritise workload effectively

- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

**Requirements:**

- BSc, MSc/PGDip Occupational Therapy

- Registered with HCPC

- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

- Pre-registration experience of mental health settings

- Experience of group and individual interventions

- Experience with physical needs screening and simple equipment provision

- Ability to undertake comprehensive occupational therapy assessments

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Assessment
- Treatment planning
- Multidisciplinary team work

### Nice to have
- Experience of using different functional assessments
- Experience of using electronic patient records
- Experience of supervising OT Student and/or junior staff

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