Job Location : Beckenham, UK
Job Title: Occupational Therapist
Band: Band 7
Trust: South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location: River House, Bethlem Royal Hospital
Ward/Dept: Occupational Therapy Team
Hours: 37.5Hrs / 9am-5pm / Monday-Friday (Can be Flexible)
Within this role, you will provide clinical leadership to the Acute (A2) pathway wards (Norbury, Thames and Spring) as the lead on the planning, coordination and delivery of Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions within the Acute wards.
Thames Ward is a medium secure, forensic acute admission ward in River House, at Bethlem Royal Hospital. Thames ward is where everyone is first admitted to at River House to determine what treatment and care they need within the unit. Norbury Ward is a medium secure inpatient psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) in River House at Bethlem Royal Hospital. This ward provides psychiatric assessment, treatment and care for men, aged 18-65, who have a history of offending behaviour. On this ward you will work closely with teams of health and social care professionals throughout the hospital, including psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and psychologists nursing and psychology. Lastly, Spring Ward is a forensic service in River House Medium Secure Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital that provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and care for women, aged over 18, who have a range of mental health problems.
The South London & 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
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Salary : 27.05 - 27.05
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