Community Occupational Therapist Role 

Job Title: Locum Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Location: Between New Malden and Worcester Park, Sout West London

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: Ongoing

• The Bridge Support Community Rehab (Bridge 24) is a Third Sector provider with two rehab houses set in Kingston.

• The service aims to deliver specific recovery focused interventions to people with a severe and enduring mental illness, enabling individuals to maintain / develop their daily living skills and to understand and develop strategies to manage the symptoms they may be experiencing. This will include medication management and monitoring physical wellbeing. In this setting, the OT will act to support the staff of the residential units to ensure effective risk management, the development of personal goals and skills to maximise daily living, and support for move on to further independent living.

• The team will provide community care to people with severe and enduring mental health problems who have been discharged from inpatient care. Clinical interventions will be intensive, but time limited with a focus on recovery and assessment for further placements. You will work closely with the Care Coordinator responsible for the clients. There is an expectation that clinical interventions will have an outcome. The assessments will be carried out using the Model of Human Occupation and treatments will be determined and carried out in the form of individual or group intervention.

• The OT for this service is managed by the Community Rehab Team based at Springfield Hospital and the OT is professionally managed by the Lead OT for Wandsworth.

• Qualified Occupational Therapist

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