Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-KM-24-6399821
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Redwoods Centre
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
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Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you a dynamic, confident and motivated Occupational Therapist with excellent communication skills with the ability to assess and lead on clinical decision making?
If so we would love to hear from you!
This role will be responsible for the delivery of a variety of specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and mental health interventions, leading on the Occupational Therapy contribution to: assessment, interventions, care planning and evaluation.
The overall purpose of the role is to ensure that individuals who are referred into the service have their occupational needs assessed and interventions/recommendations are identified to meet these needs and that these are incorporated into an overall formulation of need and appropriate plan of care.
You will also be expected to be available for consultation, support and clinical supervision to other health professionals working within the Acute Inpatient Mental Health Service and other areas of the Trust where identified as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
- Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans
- Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
- Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
- Deliver a range of non-pharmacological interventions following specific Occupational Therapy assessments to enable understanding of any expression of an unmet need and to maximise an individual’s abilities.
- Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
- Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by
· Supporting your career development and progression.
· Excellent NHS Pension scheme
· Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
· Options for flexible working
· Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
· Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
· If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
· Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
· Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
· Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
· Free car parking at all trust sites
· Free flu vaccination every year
· Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Before applying for this exciting and challenging role, we encourage applicants to view and read the job and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc/ MSc in Occupational Therapy or DipCOT
- BAOT Registered
- Health And Care Professions Council Registered Occupational Therapist
- CPD evidence of ongoing learning/development
- Practice placement educator
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- Member of Royal College Occupational Therapists
Experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge across a range of OT interventions and client groups
- Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in inpatient mental health settings and making decisions autonomously
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adam Chambers
- Job title
- Modern Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 210000
- Additional information
Sally Guest - AHP Lead Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Care Group who works Monday-Thursday 9-5
Tel: 0300 303 3426
Mob: 07580791755
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