# Occupational Therapist

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: Southall
**Salary**: £36943.00 to £44900.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our team in Ealing borough, working across 32 care homes. The successful candidate will manage a caseload of care home residents living with dementia or functional mental illness, delivering person-centred Occupational Therapy interventions.

The role involves working as part of a multidisciplinary team to support care home residents with behaviours that challenge their caregivers, reducing placement breakdown and improving residents' quality of life.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing a caseload of care home residents

- Delivering training programmes to enhance care home staff knowledge and skills

- Forming working partnerships with relevant individuals, services, and organisations

This is an ideal role for an Occupational Therapist looking to make a positive difference in the lives of care home residents.

West London NHS Trust offers a range of mental health and physical healthcare services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital and provides low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs.

The salary for this role is £36,943 to £44,900 per annum.

**Person Specification:** Essential experience:

- A clear interest in older persons' mental health

- Experience of working with people living with dementia

- Experience of Occupational Therapy in an in-patient and/or community older persons' mental health setting

- Experience of receiving supervision and reflecting on practice

- Evidence of contributing to a team project or service improvement idea

Desirable experience:

- Involvement in research and clinical audit

- Use of Model of Human Occupation (MOHO)

Essential knowledge:

- Knowledge of relevant policy and changes within the wider NHS

- Awareness and knowledge of factors specifically relating to Occupational Therapy within older persons' mental health

- Ability to build rapport with service users, carers, and colleagues

- Evidence of ability in Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and evaluation

Desirable knowledge:

- Awareness of research methodology

- Ability to prepare and present papers at study days and conferences

**Benefits:**

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 5 salary

- Permanent, full-time contract

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Dementia care
- Mental health
- Teamwork
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Model of Human Occupation (MOHO)
- Research methodology
- Audit and evaluation

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