Occupational Therapist

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist – Band 7  (Part time)
Area:  West London NHS 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing
Job details:  Occupational Therapist required to start asap for 12 weeks. JD available on request:

• To provide highly specialist occupational therapy working as an expert clinical practitioner within the Brent Acute occupational therapy team.
• To work effectively in partnership with a range of agencies and community providers that support service users in their recovery.
• To manage a defined clinical caseload of service users with complex mental health needs, using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.
• To integrate evidence-based practice and skilful use of assessments & interventions with personal recovery principles in order to support the client to prepare for discharge form the ward. With the overall aim to improve the service users’ quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
• To provide the operational management and clinical leadership to the occupational therapy service and oversee the therapy input into the Tamarind Centre with the support of the Service Manager and Brent Head Occupational Therapist.
• To work in conjunction with the Trust Head Occupational Therapist, Borough Head Occupational Therapist and other Lead OTs in the trust to support the development of and promote evidence-based OT within the acute service.
• To manage the financial resources for the service

Working hours: 22.5 hours per week.
Code: U. AHP254. 020012.B13920