Occupational Therapist

Job summary

This role may be eligible for recruitment incentives, please liaise with the recruiting manager for further detail.

Are you a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist ready to make a real difference in crisis mental health care? Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic and autonomous Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Crisis and Home-Based Treatment Team.

As a Band 6 OT, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering responsive, recovery-focused interventions to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises. Working across community settings--including service users' homes--you'll help stabilise mental health, promote independence, and prevent hospital admissions.

You'll be collaborating within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team across Hull and the East Riding. This is a unique opportunity to lead on specialist OT input, contribute to service development, and support junior staff while upholding trauma-informed, person-centred care.

You will manage a specialist caseload and deliver evidence-based OT interventions and conduct holistic assessments, care planning, and risk management. You will supervise and support junior staff, students, and Assistant Practitioners and provide expert OT advice to colleagues across disciplines. You will contribute to service development, clinical audits, and quality improvement projects. There is an expectation to work flexibly across community settings, including remote delivery where appropriate

Main duties of the job

Specialist occupational therapy interventions: Deliver evidence-based OT care to individuals in acute mental health crisis across community settings, including service users' homes.

Holistic Assessment and Care Planning: Contribute to multidisciplinary assessments, risk management, and recovery-focused care plans.

Supervision and Support: Provide clinical supervision to junior staff, students, and Assistant Practitioners in OT (APOTs), ensuring safe and effective practice.

Service Development and Leadership: Lead on OT input within the team, contribute to service improvement initiatives, and support implementation of Trust and national policies.

Communication and collaboration: Use advanced interpersonal skills to communicate complex information sensitively and effectively with service users, carers, and colleagues.

Training and Education: Plan and deliver specialist training sessions for staff and students, and support professional development across the team.

Clinical Governance and Research: Participate in audits, quality improvement projects, and contribute to research within the OT speciality.

Documentation and I.T skills: Maintain accurate patient records and demonstrate proficiency in digital systems, adhering to confidentiality and data protection standard

About us

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 promotes 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.

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