Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Beech House
Town: Boston
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/10/2024 23:59
Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Do you want to work specifically as an Occupational Therapist, practice and thrive in the occupation you went to University to specialise in, and love working in mental health? Then come and be part of the CMHT in Boston. We want your specialism to enhance the service we can offer the individuals in the East Coast of Lincolnshire area.
If you have any questions, we would be more than happy for you to give us a call or call in to Beech House and have a chat. We want to attract the person best suited to this role, and this doesn’t always mean most experienced.
If you are newly qualified or working in a B5 role and want to look at progression into B6, please have a read of those competencies we would hope to see over a defined period of time within the team. Good Luck.
Main duties of the job
Please see attached job description for full details. Coordinate and deliver specific Occupational therapy interventions/treatment, complete initial assessments, work closely with our Peer support workers in the ongoing development and therapeutic use of our patient allotment and peer support group. You will be supported to identify and develop groups, activities, and interventions that would benefit the patient group within CMHT, whilst being supported to continue your own professional development.
The post holder will be responsible for the comprehensive mental health assessment & treatment of Adults and their caregivers who are referred to the Adult Community Mental Health Team. The post holder will be required to coordinate and deliver interventions/treatment to patients whilst under care of the Community Mental Health team. The post holder will provide specific occupational therapy interventions and professional advice and support to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment, and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. This will include a balance of both generic and specific OT work.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients’ mental health care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of occupational therapists in the team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage referrals and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
To communicate and liaise with others to ensure appropriate assessments, interventions, and reviews are in place.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them and/or their caregivers to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour to facilitate discharge.
Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk to facilitate discharge.
To assess carers’ and family’s needs and signpost or refer them to the relevant support.
Protect people from abuse, neglect, and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills to facilitate discharge to their residence of choice.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to coordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to HCPC code of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines (for example N.I.C.E.).
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the team and seek opportunities in local and national areas to promote and develop the profession.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management, and audit.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Team Coordinator.
To act as lead professional within the CMHT Team.
Offer management and professional supervision to colleagues working within the team.
Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff to create networks that improve the pathway of care as patients are discharged from acute services.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Currently Occupational Therapist
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
* Training in Cognitive disability model
* Training in AMPS
* Management training
* APPLE accreditation
Experience
* Relevant experience of working with adults with complex needs or adults with mental health needs and skills that are transferable.
* Experience of working with people with cognitive impairment
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills
* Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
* Awareness of current pressure working with older adults in a hospital environment
* Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Highly developed skills in occupational therapy assessment and treatment.
* Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
* Highly developed communication skills.
* Excellent understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries.
* Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients' care, where appropriate.
* Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
* Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes.
* Ability to work independently and collectively.
Special Requirements
* Ability to travel independently throughout the county without the use of public transport. Current driving Licence is essential due to the extensive travel both internal and external to the county on a regular basis.
As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have the right to work in the UK.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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