Job overview

Join our innovative and passionate Occupational Therapy team and make a real difference in the lives of adults with autism.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to further develop their leadership and specialist clinical skills within a supportive service. 

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to lead our adult autism services. You will lead the clinical provision of occupational therapy services within the autism acute support team and community autism service.  You will be delivering high quality care as part of multi-disciplinary services. 

As part of the wider directorate you will have opportunities to link with other occupational therapists with clinical supervision provided from the Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist.

Main duties of the job

·       To actively support the Directorate Occupational Therapy Lead in the overall development of the OT service within the ALD Directorate to demonstrate the effectiveness of providing high-quality assessment and intervention to adults with Autism.

·       To manage a complex clinical caseload, including positive risk taking and managing high risk/ crisis.

·       To be responsible for ensuring clinical provision in the Adult Autism services is evidence based and is compliant with professional guidance.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care