LD Employment Team Leader

As Employment Team Leader your role will be to support and develop a strong and innovative employment team to enable Adults with Learning Disabilities living in Enfield to gain person centred valued worker roles, allowing for Employment for All regardless of Disability. You will have responsibility to co-ordinate & evidence the provision of mainly LD employment services into the community.

As a clinician you will provide a comprehensive and effective assessment and treatment service to your complex caseload. You will be required to provide specialist intervention primarily in the community.

As an OT in Equals - employment for all is the goal. Using personalised interventions, employer relationships and partnerships, to support those with learning difficulties and long-term conditions (pan-disability).

The ILDS provides health and social care to adults with learning disabilities living in Enfield. The service consists of health and social care staff which include social work, community nursing, speech and language therapists, arts therapists, psychology, psychiatry and specialists' teams including Equals employment team.

The role aims to bridge the gap and empower equal opportunities for employment for those vulnerable individuals with learning disabilities. As a core principle in OT is 'Equality' this is our ethos in the Equals department of the Integrated Learning Disabilities team (ILDS) of Enfield.

Main duties of the job

1. To manage the day to day running of the Equals Employment Team to get adults with Learning Disabilities living in Enfield into paid Employment
2. To work with Employers to identify suitable job roles, job carving and making reasonable adjustments in the workplace along with Risk assessments and support me plans, enabling successful placement and maintenance of employment
3. Using a strength based, person-centred approach to identify client skills, support systems required and valued work placements
4. To work with Assessment and Care management to ensure employment goals are reviewed and met. Ensuring the team review all Equals only package clients are reviewed annually.
5. To work creatively with the team to maximise employment opportunities for people with disabilities who are furthest from the job market enabling them to meet their aspirations in worker roles
6. To work with the Service manager to ensure that the Employment Service works to its allocated financial resources & accessing and running with further funding streams to maximise the impact of the Team

Note: The line items 1 and 2 have been consolidated into the Job responsibilities section in the original; this refined version presents them as a numbered list for clarity.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

1. To work with the Service manager to ensure that the Employment Service works to its allocated financial resources & accessing and running with further funding streams to maximise the impact of the Team
2. This role will require the postholder to use and be responsible for a company payment card to use for one of purchases as assessed and in line with direct payment policies and procedures
3. This role will require the Therapist to be financially aware of the impact that getting a paid job has on an individuals benefits &livelihood.
4. You will be required to carry out financial assessments, filling in care and support plans including personal budgets
5. You will be required to work with DWP enabling Service users to access available funding streams and support
6. Due to the integrated relationship with the social care team, the nature of the role may occasionally require OT to take case to panel to agree funding for resident/service user.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered
• Job Coaching Certificate
• Member of a special Interest Group

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Diploma
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
• Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development in specialist clinical area
• Working at 'Masters' level as demonstrated by ongoing CPD
• Member of relevant professional body
• Vocational Qualification from BASE or equivalent

Skills

• Advanced clinical practitioner
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others and effective time management
• Ability to demonstrate clear understanding of clinical governance and its application to the work setting
• Ability to use clinical reasoning/ evaluation skills relating to the needs of the clients in relation to employment goals.
• Ability to organise self in terms of prioritisation, Flexible working and working under pressure
• Effective written and verbal communication skills including sensitivity to a variety of situations and responding appropriately to challenging and difficult behaviours and emotional distress
• Ability to actively promote self, employment and OT profession
• Information and technology skills to use a computer, including word processing, excel, email and internet
• Willingness to undertake further training and development in OT and employment
• Preceptorship training
• Student Supervisor training
• Talking mats

Experience

• 2 years postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level, NHS or Local authority equivalent level
• Experience of Working with People with Learning Disabilities - some of whom may have behaviour that challenges &/or Complex physical or mental health needs
• Experience of supporting people with disabilities into employment and to work in partnership whilst ensuring that their needs are met through creative solutions to complex situations
• Experience of working with clients with autism, sensory or emotional and behavioural needs
• Evidence of teaching & supervising less experienced staff & Students
• Experience of Multidisciplinary & interagency Working
• Experience of leading a team, ensuring clinical goals are met
• Healthy, safety and risk management awareness in the workplace
• Use of easy read materials to make workplace reasonable adjustments
• Robust understanding of all aspects of clinical governance including previous experience of quality issues, audit & risk management
• Use of Assistive Technology tools and devices in / for the client workplace
• Advanced keyboard skills Advanced knowledge of Excel and ability to design data recording systems to support data collection
• Awareness of sensory needs

Personal Qualities

• Flexibility is essential to enable 'Equals' to meet the employment needs and goals of our service users.
• Positive attitude towards work and employment support to service users and family

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.

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearPer annum inclusive of HCAS