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Job Title: Occupational Therapist
Band: Band 6
Trust: South London &amp; Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Speedwell Community mental health centre, Speedwell Street
Ward/Dept: Lewisham Downham CMHT Neighbourhood 2C
Hours : 37.5Hrs or less / 9am-5pm / Monday-Friday
Introduction to the Role:
In this role, you will provide an occupational therapy service to service users with complex needs within the neighbourhood community mental health team. This will include specialist OT assessment, planning and intervention to promote wellbeing, recovery and empowering person-centred practice. Although this is a dedicated OT post, the post holder will be required to hold and integrate both the OT specific and generic elements of their job whilst complying with the college of Occupational Therapists’ Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The post holder will participate in the development, delivery and evaluation of both the Occupational Therapy and MDT interventions as required to promote a recovery focused service.
Introduction to the Trust &amp; Team:
The South London &amp; Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Croydon as well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.
It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trust also works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Key Responsibilities
To be an integrated team member within the multidisciplinary neighbourhood team providing specialist Occupational Therapy Assessment and Interventions and working within the MDT to address occupational and Recovery goals.
To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of physical disability and recommend adaptations to the clients physical and social environment.
To assess and manage ongoing risks ensuring this is done in collaboration with service users and carers.
To promote the empowerment of individual service users to manage their health as much as possible and use of Self-Directed Support where indicated.
To utilise a comprehensive set of skills to effectively communicate and engage with service users, their families and the MDT to formulate individuals' strengths and barriers within an Occupationally focused clinical framework.
To work effectively and responsively as member of clinical team and implement core decisions with regard to service users care and contribute to the duty rota.
Work in partnership with other relevant agencies to ensure appropriate delivery of care plans.
To contribute to the implementation of the Occupational Therapy Strategy in Lewisham and participate in service and occupational therapy evaluations, clinical pathways, development of service improvement projects and models oaf care as required.
To provide leadership and professional expertise in line with clinical experience.
To provide supervision and preceptorship of Band 5 OT’s and students and take opportunities to influence best practice and learning.
To actively contribute to the process of service development and evaluation within Lewisham’s community services.
To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
HCPC registration
Degree in Occupational Therapy
Post registration experience
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
Relevant Qualifications
Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable.
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Occupational Therapist

About the Trust and team:
South London &amp; Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. SLAM serves a local population of 1.3 million people in south London, as well as specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond. Each year SLAM provides inpatient care for over 5,000 people and treat more than 40,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Croydon.
This role is within a community-based project requiring the postholder to take lead and responsibility over, as well as working in conjunction with the wider MDT team. The postholder must be confident in their ability to work autonomously and have skills within clinical admin, data quality, assessing and supporting families and safeguarding concerns. This post involves working to promote the emotional and physical health and wellbeing of children ages 5-12 years who are living with excess weight.
The Team at the Mary Sheridan Centre consists of a Highly Specialist Family Therapist / Service Lead, Consultant Paediatrician, Specialist Dietician, and Physical Activity Specialist. The team provides care and support for children affected by excess weight in the community. A systemic biopsychosocial approach is key to the project ethos
Job responsibilities The role of the CAMHS Practitioner is to provide specialist assessment, formulation and intervention to children and their families, and offer consultation and liaison to the wider network which includes, but is not limited to:
Providing specialist assessments of children referred to the service in collaboration with family members and others involved in the childrens care
Formulating and implementing plans therapeutic support to promote emotional and physical health
Being responsible for undertaking therapeutic session for children and their carers, families and groups, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment options and discharge planning, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group
Providing specialist advice guidance and consultation to other professionals involved in the patients care
Person Specification Qualifications Essential
To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
Have a professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Family Therapy, Child &amp; Adolescent Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Drama Therapy or equivalent with related CAMHS Experience.
Have a current registration with the appropriate registration body (Nursing and Midwifery Council, Social Work England or Health and Care Professions Council).
To have the suitable experience in a mental health setting or have at least 3 years of post-qualifying experience within the mental health field
A driving license and access to a car travel will be required for this role including some home visits
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of: Essential Relevant Qualifications
Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable

CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
Grade: Band 6
Trust: South London &amp; Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Lambeth Early Onset Community Mental Health Team, 190 Kennington Lane, SE11 5DL
Hours: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 17.00pm
About the Trust:
The South London &amp; Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Croydon as well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich, and Bromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.
It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trust also works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
Knowledge and experience of Epjs for documentation
Experience of working in EIP
Experience of working in a community mental health team
Correct registration body
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
Relevant Qualifications
Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Role responsibilities:
To be responsible for the assessment of newly referred adults who may be undergoing their first psychotic episode. To work with diagnostic uncertainty, providing ongoing comprehensive assessment and outcome monitoring of all caseload service users.
To assertively outreach difficult to engage service users. To meet service users regularly, to respond flexibly when agreeing venue, such as home visit, team base, education, work or recreational establishment to assist with engagement &amp; encourage participation in treatment delivery as well as facilitating independence
To involve families and carers in treatment plans where appropriate. This may require direct Family Intervention work. Ensuring services are provided within guidance of the Children &amp; Families' Act and Care Act.
To work in co-operation with members of the multi-disciplinary team and all other relevant health and social care professionals to assess, develop, implement and evaluate high quality packages of client-centred care.
Why NHS Professionals?
We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients

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