Bank Mental Health Occupational Therapist

1 month ago


Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit a flexible, dynamic, and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Occupational Therapist with mental health clinical skills, knowledge, and experience to take on opportunities within adult and older adult inpatient and community mental health services. This is an opportunity to diversify and expand your skill set as an occupational Therapist to work within and across multidisciplinary teams to enable and drive high quality effective, accessible Occupational therapy care.

Main duties of the job

Posts will include provision of specific assessments, formulation, and interventions, working collaboratively with patients, their carers/families and partnership organisations to develop creative, goal oriented, occupational therapy plans. As a senior clinician you would work flexibly and autonomously responding to service needs. Your role will also be to support junior staff and peers in their developmentYou will hold a diploma or degree in occupational therapy, be registered to practice in the UK, have post graduate experience of working in mental health settings.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for occupational therapy input in an ethical manner for a defined caseload, including care coordination, for older adult patients with mental health needs including dementia of any age in recovery and positive risk taking provide a high quality Occupational therapy service which is holistic, evidence based, safe, effective, efficient, accessible and client centred. The post holder will support patients independence and wellbeing and deliver individual assessments and formulation and specific treatments which are client centred and support timely discharge whilst maintaining occupation at the centre of practice. The post holder will provide active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing mentoring education and supervision to non-registered staff and students and via practice and work based learning contribute to development, provision and evaluation of programmes of Learning and Development to other professionals. To represent and promote the specialist role of occupational therapy including service planning and development and supporting practice placements for occupational therapy students and support students from other disciplines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy HCPC registered

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge and understanding of OT Professional Code of Conduct and OT core skills, and their application in practice Knowledge and understanding of current legislation including mental health and mental capacity act and understanding of clinical risk assessment

Desirable

Knowledge of local & national priorities

Skills

Essential

Assessment & OT process skills Effective risk management Skilled in motivating others Team working Ability to work to meet the needs of the service Willingness to work as an active part of a multi-disciplinary team Experience of service improvement/ audit Flexible Able to work independently, knows own limits. Good written, verbal & IT skills with patients, carers and other professionals. Ability to undertake specialist OT assessments and assess complex risks with people with mental health conditions and cognitive impairment. Effective time management and organisational skills and ability to work under pressure Positive attitude to working with adults with mental health conditions

Desirable

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use A high level of emotional intelligence Clinical supervision skills Ability to undertake initial mental health assessments and experience of care coordination

Experience

Essential

Recent experience of working with adults with mental health conditions

Desirable

Experience of working in a community, inpatient or primary care team Experience of supervising and leading staff Experience of service improvement/ audit

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