Main area Specialist Perinatal Occupational Therapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 338-6889917-24
Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Department of Psychological Medicine Town Hull Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/01/2025 23:59
Specialist Perinatal Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive Perinatal Team based at St Andrews Place and delivering a service across Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire to women experiencing perinatal difficulties?
Do you like the idea of using your skills in a rewarding and fulfilling way to help women at a crucial point in their lives?
If the answer is yes, we currently have a Specialist Perinatal Occupational Therapist Post available for 37.5 hours per week.
Working in a perinatal team means that you can help women like Naomi in our #EveryMumMatters video (www.everymummatters.com).
Main duties of the job
The core functions of this post include:
1. Assessing and treating your own specialist caseload of clients for a professional OT service.
2. Providing specialist OT advice to other disciplines.
3. Supervising junior staff, students, and support workers.
4. Leading/contributing to clinical audits.
5. Undertaking research and ensuring effective patient/service-user care is maintained.
The post holder will be expected to work independently using the MOHO as the main framework for assessment. They will need to possess effective time management skills and be able to commute across the Humber 4 patches. There will also be an expectation that the post holder will hold a Care Co-ordinator role for some patients going forward.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to the vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy.
* Registration with the HCPC.
* A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical practice and service.
* Specialist knowledge of occupational therapy models of practice, standardised assessments, and their use in practice.
* Knowledge and understanding of the evidence-based relevant to the clinical area.
* Basic IT skills.
* Experienced and competent practice educator with up to date SLiP training.
* Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level e.g. degree or post-graduate level or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning.
* Registration within the specialist RCOT sections.
* Willingness to consider undertaking the training required to be a Practice Placements for students.
* Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area.
* Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
Experience
* Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in the relevant service area.
* Understanding of caseload management clinical responsibilities.
* Successful completion of preceptorship.
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
* Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
Skills and Competencies
* Evidence of good time management skills.
* Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
* Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
* Ability to commute between the various sites.
* Mandatory training to support safe practice and the management of violence and aggression.
* Manoeuvres patients/service-user and/or equipment.
* Requirement of frequent concentration e.g., assessments, care plans.
* Provide working hours to support the service needs.
* Awareness of leadership/management skills and qualities.
* Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.
* Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post, the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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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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