Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic Band 5, Occupational Therapist (part time - 22.5 hours) to join Bishop Auckland and Dales Community Mental Health Team MHSOP.
The multi-disciplinary team works with dementia patients and their families as well as those with functional disorders to deliver high quality Occupational Therapy service.
We are looking for an occupational therapist who can work flexibly to meet service needs and has the vision, energy, and inspiration to develop creative, imaginative solutions to delivering occupational therapy with adults and their families/carers.
You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network in Bishop MHSOP within TEWV, to develop a way of delivering a high quality, needs-led OT service, utilising core occupational therapy skills to ensure all of the people we work with have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.
As an occupational therapist in TEWV, you will be professionally and clinically accountable for your own caseload, assessing occupational performance and delivering occupational interventions, demonstrating adherence to the Trust values at all times and operating as a member of the team, service, and organisation.
Main duties of the job
* To be responsible for receiving referrals for occupational therapy, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure.
* To use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
* To participate in clinical/professional and management supervision.
* To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working.
* To contribute to service improvement and quality initiatives.
* To use the Trust electronic patient record system.
* To abide by all Trust policies and procedures.
* To be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges.
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York, and Selby.
From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care, our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities, and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in, and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families, and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need to lead their best possible life.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide evidence-based assessment and interventions as part of the OT Pathway and dementia pathway, and offer input to individuals, their families and carers, in the inpatient service.
All team members must be committed to providing the best possible care for the people we work with and their families/carers.
The ability to engage and communicate with older people and those with dementia and functional disorders as well as the parents/family/carers and system around them is essential.
Clinical/Professional supervision is provided by the supervising Occupational Therapist as identified by the Lead Occupational Therapist. The post holder will attend OT Learning and Governance Networks to ensure fidelity to core occupational therapy delivery, enhance CPD, and contribute to the wider OT service developments.
You must be able to demonstrate experience in the delivery of occupational therapy, keenness to continually develop yourself and others, and a particular interest in this field of OT. We will support the use of transferrable skills from a range of clinical settings.
There are varied opportunities for training and development, with CPD needs being identified and monitored through appraisal.
You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
* Registration with HCPC.
* Willingness to undertake the Preceptorship Programme and Competency Framework (within an agreed timescale).
* Numeracy, Literacy, and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent).
Experience
* Experience of working in a variety of occupational therapy practice areas whilst on student placements.
* Experience of working with service users with mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience presenting to groups.
Knowledge
* Professional Code of Conduct and its application to practice.
* Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
* Care Programme Approach.
* Safeguarding and its application in practice.
* Software packages e.g. MOHOST, OSA, AMPS.
Skills
* Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Manage your own caseload and prioritise effectively.
* Ability to lead therapy group sessions (within agreed timescales).
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
£29,970 to £36,483 a year pro rata, per annum.
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