The Clinical Specialist OT post sits in the Older Adults South Home Treatment Team at North London NHS Foundation Trust, a multidisciplinary crisis service. The role centres on functional assessments of how people manage daily living, recommending aids, adaptations and sensory support, alongside mental health assessments and follow-up visits. The team works with people over 70 or with dementia in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission, and the post holder makes autonomous decisions on whether home treatment is safe. Current HCPC registration and evidence of further post-registration training are required.
What the job involves
- Carry out comprehensive functional assessments of service users' level of function and motivation for daily living activities
- Recommend aids, adaptations, sensory support and other strategies to promote function, independence and wellbeing
- Undertake generic mental health assessments, examinations and follow-up visits
- Make autonomous decisions when assessing acutely unwell service users at risk of admission, determining whether home treatment is safe
What’s required
Qualifications
- Evidence of further post-registration training or ongoing study relevant to practice, e.g. dementia or frailty
Registration & licences
- Current HCPC registration
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year post-graduate experience
- Senior specialist experience with people living with mental illness or dementia in a community or inpatient setting
- Experience working with family members and carers of people with mental illness, age-related frailty or dementia
- Experience liaising and working with other agencies and carers
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to work autonomously
- Competent using computers to record data, write reports, use email and search the web
- Demonstrated adaptability to change
- Clear understanding of own role and that of others within the multidisciplinary team
Other
- Clear examples of demonstrating the Trust's core values in previous work
Nice to have
- Sensory Integration training
- Experience working in a mental health or crisis team
- Experience supervising and appraising junior staff and students
- Experience using the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool and MOHO outcome measures
- Experience of service improvement or quality improvement, and willingness to take part
What’s offered
- NHS discounts
- Generous annual leave
- NHS pension scheme
- Support for flexible working
- Health and wellbeing initiatives
- Leadership and managers programme
- Internal staff network
- Many further development opportunities
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
