North London NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Occupational Therapist
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Are you an experienced and passionate Occupational Therapist looking for your next leadership opportunity?
North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 7 Lead Occupational Therapist to join The Beacon Centre, our specialist Tier 4 CAMHS inpatient service for young people with complex mental health needs. This is a unique opportunity to shape and lead Occupational Therapy within a highly specialist multidisciplinary environment while making a lasting difference to the lives of young people and their families.
We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Occupational Therapist who is passionate about improving outcomes for young people and developing services.
You Will Bring
- HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist.
- Significant post-registration experience working with people with complex mental health needs.
- Experience of leadership, supervision and workforce development.
- Excellent clinical reasoning and risk management skills.
- Experience of service improvement, audit or quality improvement work.
- A commitment to evidence-based, person-centred and occupation-focused practice.
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As the Lead Occupational Therapist, you will provide clinical, professional and operational leadership for the Occupational Therapy service. You will lead a dedicated Occupational Therapy team, contribute to the Senior Management Team, and play a key role in driving service development, quality improvement and innovation across the service.
You will deliver highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for young people experiencing complex mental health difficulties, while supporting the multidisciplinary team through consultation, training and practice-based learning.
- Lead and develop Occupational Therapy services within a specialist Tier 4 CAMHS setting.
- Shape innovative, occupation-focused and evidence-based practice.
- Influence service development and strategic decision-making.
- Lead and develop a skilled Occupational Therapy workforce.
- Drive quality improvement, service evaluation and research activity.
- Work alongside experienced professionals across nursing, psychology, psychiatry, family therapy, social work and education.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Helmut Kolakowski
- Job title: Service Manager - CAMHS Crisis Services
- Email address: h.kolakowski@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02087026698
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