# Occupational Therapist

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: Ealing
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £36,943 to £44,900 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Are you a compassionate and driven Occupational Therapist looking to make a meaningful impact in community mental health?

Join our dynamic and supportive team and play a crucial role in empowering individuals to live their best lives within the community.

At West London NHS Trust, we are dedicated to delivering high-quality, recovery-focused mental health services. We work collaboratively with service users, their families, and other health professionals to promote recovery, independence, and well-being.

As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist in our community mental health team MINT, you will assess, plan, and deliver interventions that promote mental health recovery and support individuals in leading meaningful and independent lives.

**Main duties of the job**

- Assessing clients' functional abilities and identifying needs related to mental health, daily living, and social participation

- Developing individualized care and intervention plans to enhance clients' independence and quality of life

- Collaborating with service users, their families, and multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic, person-centered care

- Supporting clients in developing coping strategies, managing daily routines, and accessing community resources

- Facilitating group and individual therapy sessions focused on occupational engagement

- Contributing to discharge planning and linking clients to the community.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £36,943 to £44,900 a year

- Permanent, full-time position

**Requirements**

- BSc (Hons) or equivalent Occupational Therapy qualification

- HCPC Registration

- Application of core OT skills and OT process

- Multidisciplinary team working

- Mental health diagnoses/presentations

- Research methodology

- Core skills of OT process

- Awareness of the need to work within appropriate boundaries

- Evidence of post-qualified training in Mental Health

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Communication
- Teamwork

### Nice to have
- Group work theory and practice
- Relevant current legislation
- Use of standardised assessment tools and outcome measures

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