Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-TH7202063
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tower Hamlets Town Hall
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum Incl HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Band 7 Specialist Mental Health Occupational Therapist to join the Tower Hamlets Mental Health Liaison team, a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in adult and older adult mental health.
The team provides compassionate, person centered and non-judgmental care to individuals presenting to the A&E department with mental health related problems. Assessments, care and treatment are also provided to inpatients at the Royal London Hospital and St Bartholomew’s hospital who have mental health needs.
This is a full time post, with the opportunity for flexibility, working across the working age and older adult service within the acute trust hospital. The post holder will work across the emergency pathway as well as general hospital acute wards and provide opportunity for extensive joint working with our acute trust colleagues. You will have the opportunity to develop and build on assessment, supervision and liaison skills
Professional supervision will be provided as will a full range of support to develop into the role
Main duties of the job
- Providing assessment and brief intervention to patients in the acute hospital, contributing to a smooth and early discharge and /or prevents an admission to a mental health unit.
2. Improve the experience of patients who receive care in the acute hospital.
3. Take a lead in linking with the acute hospital multi-disciplinary team and the relevant mental health adult and older people Occupational Therapy teams in Tower Hamlets.
4. Provide an occupational therapy perspective to the multi-disciplinary team regarding assessment, intervention, management and discharge planning.
5. Provide specialist OT advice and support about the management and treatment of patients to acute hospital staff.
6. Support the Head OT’s in the development of clinical and professional practice within the OT service.
7. Communicate across organisations using techniques such as negotiation, motivation and persuasion to ensure the role is effectively carried out
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Providing assessment and brief intervention to patients in the acute hospital, contributing to a smooth and early discharge and /or prevents an admission to a mental health unit.
2. Improve the experience of patients who receive care in the acute hospital.
3. Take a lead in linking with the acute hospital multi-disciplinary team and the relevant mental health adult and older people Occupational Therapy teams in Tower Hamlets.
4. Provide an occupational therapy perspective to the multi-disciplinary team regarding assessment, intervention, management and discharge planning.
5. Provide specialist OT advice and support about the management and treatment of patients to acute hospital staff.
6. Support the Head OT’s in the development of clinical and professional practice within the OT service.
7. Communicate across organisations using techniques such as negotiation, motivation and persuasion to ensure the role is effectively carried out
Person specification
Education / Qualification
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy. HCP registered Occupational Therapy.
- Relevant further education with Adult and/or MHCOP.
Desirable criteria
- Specialist courses to masters level or equivalent relevant to the post.
- Practice educator training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years post graduate experience in a clinical mental health setting.
- Experience of working with older people and/or adults with mental health problems.
- Experience of supervision.
- Experience of undertaking assessment and care planning.
- Experience of involvement in service and practice development.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an inner city/diverse community.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well-developed assessment and care planning skills.
- To demonstrate a commitment to person-centerd care.
- An ability to engage and communicate with patients, their carers and other professionals, both verbally and in writing, on a one to one basis.
- To demonstrate the ability to manage a complex clinical caseload.
- An ability to assess and manage risk.
- To demonstrate the ability to make decisions on available evidence and to justify decisions effectively
- To demonstrate the ability to work independently and within a team.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Keen
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 392 9000
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