Homelessness Team Occupational Therapist
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
Published 1 week ago
Homelessness
Job summary
This is an exciting role to help provide an innovative model of care for homeless people admitted to St Georges Hospital.
This post is open to individuals with occupational therapy backgrounds who have an interest in homeless health issues. They will provide clinical expertise and case management for patients referred to the service. They will have an understanding of the complex tri-morbid factors that the patient cohort experience, taking this into consideration in assessment and recommendations made.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be engaged in significant partnership working aimed at improving hospital discharge for individuals, and also for groups of patients where patterns emerge. This partnership working will be with NHS services, GP's, Housing departments, Social Care and Voluntary Sector organisations. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that there are processes in place for the holistic assessment, planning and provision of interventions.
The post holder will work alongside a Specialist General Practitioner a Homelessness Nurse Specialist, 2 Housing Officers, Adult Violence Practitioner and Care Navigator, to provide additional support to homeless people. The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Homeless Team in the enhanced management of homeless people on the wards. The post holder will provide direct support to the Homeless Team, medical and surgical teams, therapists and wards in discharging their patients in a safe and timely manner.
The team work closely with staff across all disciplines between hospital and community to ensure a safe, timely and effective transfer of patient care on discharge. The team aims to improve the health of homeless people, provide holistic well co-ordinated care, reduce delayed discharges and also reduce premature discharges of homeless patients with the aim of reducing future unscheduled admissions and ED attendances.
About us
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Essential
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Essential
Essential
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Employer details
Employer name
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Georges Hospital
Tooting
SW17 0QT
Employer's website
This is an exciting role to help provide an innovative model of care for homeless people admitted to St Georges Hospital.
This post is open to individuals with occupational therapy backgrounds who have an interest in homeless health issues. They will provide clinical expertise and case management for patients referred to the service. They will have an understanding of the complex tri-morbid factors that the patient cohort experience, taking this into consideration in assessment and recommendations made.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be engaged in significant partnership working aimed at improving hospital discharge for individuals, and also for groups of patients where patterns emerge. This partnership working will be with NHS services, GP's, Housing departments, Social Care and Voluntary Sector organisations. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that there are processes in place for the holistic assessment, planning and provision of interventions.
The post holder will work alongside a Specialist General Practitioner a Homelessness Nurse Specialist, 2 Housing Officers, Adult Violence Practitioner and Care Navigator, to provide additional support to homeless people. The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Homeless Team in the enhanced management of homeless people on the wards. The post holder will provide direct support to the Homeless Team, medical and surgical teams, therapists and wards in discharging their patients in a safe and timely manner.
The team work closely with staff across all disciplines between hospital and community to ensure a safe, timely and effective transfer of patient care on discharge. The team aims to improve the health of homeless people, provide holistic well co-ordinated care, reduce delayed discharges and also reduce premature discharges of homeless patients with the aim of reducing future unscheduled admissions and ED attendances.
About us
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registered with Health Professionals Council as Occupational Therapist.
- Post Graduate Training
- Teaching and Assessing course or mentorship course
- To have or be currently working towards Masters degree
- Specialist qualification in a relevant area eg. addictions
Essential
- Post-registration experience
- Experience working in specialty involved in complex clients.
- Experience of undertaking holistic health assessments and assessing mental health needs and social care needs as well as physical care health needs
- Experience of working in MDT
- Experience of liaison with statutory and non-statutory services.
- Experience working with marginalised groups of clients.
Essential
- Warm, friendly manner
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent general organisational skills
- Confident to problem solve and make independent decisions
- Expert motivational interviewing skills
- Demonstrated ability to work successfully with patients with personality disorder and complex trauma
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registered with Health Professionals Council as Occupational Therapist.
- Post Graduate Training
- Teaching and Assessing course or mentorship course
- To have or be currently working towards Masters degree
- Specialist qualification in a relevant area eg. addictions
Essential
- Post-registration experience
- Experience working in specialty involved in complex clients.
- Experience of undertaking holistic health assessments and assessing mental health needs and social care needs as well as physical care health needs
- Experience of working in MDT
- Experience of liaison with statutory and non-statutory services.
- Experience working with marginalised groups of clients.
Essential
- Warm, friendly manner
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent general organisational skills
- Confident to problem solve and make independent decisions
- Expert motivational interviewing skills
- Demonstrated ability to work successfully with patients with personality disorder and complex trauma
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Employer details
Employer name
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Georges Hospital
Tooting
SW17 0QT
Employer's website