Job summary
The Occupational Therapy team at Long Fox Unit is looking to recruit an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist who has an interest in working in mental health.
This post is rotational, where you will get the opportunity to work across both Adults of Working Age and Older Adults in Mental Health utilising a broad range of OT skills.Within in this job you will provide 1:1 OT interventions, group activities and work closely withthe MDT.
You will be supported by senior OTs to use and further develop your professional skills. You will be expected to be a reflective practitioner, committed to lifelong learning. You willparticipate in activities related to your own CPD and also the team development, keeping abreast of and implementing, current evidence based intervention. Regular supervision and appraisal are an integrated part of our practice, and you will also have the opportunity to supervise junior OT staff members.
For further information please contact Zoe Tippetts, Lead Occupational Therapist, on 01934 836505.
Main duties of the job
- Professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously to deliver OT in a variety of inpatient and/or community settings including the service user's own home.
- To develop and implement OT treatment plans and provide advice to service users to enable them to maintain, restore or create a balance between their abilities and the demands of their occupation and environment in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure. Service users have a range of mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
- To work compassionately with service users and carers to achieve identified OT goals and to promote social inclusion, independence and well-being through a client- centred approach.
- To provide the best possible experience for service users, carers and families.
- To develop professional knowledge and skills through participation in preceptorship and competency framework to enable the post holder to take responsibility for service users with increasingly more diverse presentations and more complex problems.
- To facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing clinical advice and training to OT associate practitioners, assistants and students as appropriate.
- To be committed to and involved in activities integral to Quality Improvement.
- To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learningdisabilities.
- To promote at all times a positive image of the OT Service and the wider Trust.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact
- Accountable for designated caseload, working within an evidenced based occupational therapy treatment plan and care programme approach under the guidance of the supervising occupational therapist. Service users may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and have difficult family situations of relevance.
- Undertakes occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits.
- Assesses and manages risk effectively in clinical and community settings including the service users own home
- Works with service users and carers to identify Occupational Therapy goals as part of the overall Multidisciplinary Team plan.
- Develops and implements individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user(s) and MDT to achieve therapeutic goals.
- Uses technical and creative skills to engage service users in therapeutic activities and encourages them in a compassionate manner, to support them in achieving their identified goals.
- Monitors and evaluates occupational therapy treatment in order to measure progress and modifies treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions.
- Provides reports on service user progress at clinical meetings and participates in the clinical decision-making process regarding service user care programmes as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provides advice, education and training to service users, carers and other healthcare staff involved in service users care.
- Undertakes health promotion activities.
- Assesses service users for and fits adapted equipment in the home, as appropriate.
- Acts as lead professional for service users if no other professional is involved in the service users care and may undertake care co-ordination for service users on Care Programme Approach where there is an occupational therapy component identified.
- Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of service user harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the service user. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
- Demonstrates safe moving and handling of service users, using equipment as required.
- Demonstrates safe physical interventions in the management of violence and aggression as required.
FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE SEE JD ATTACHED
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact
- Accountable for designated caseload, working within an evidenced based occupational therapy treatment plan and care programme approach under the guidance of the supervising occupational therapist. Service users may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and have difficult family situations of relevance.
- Undertakes occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits.
- Assesses and manages risk effectively in clinical and community settings including the service users own home
- Works with service users and carers to identify Occupational Therapy goals as part of the overall Multidisciplinary Team plan.
- Develops and implements individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user(s) and MDT to achieve therapeutic goals.
- Uses technical and creative skills to engage service users in therapeutic activities and encourages them in a compassionate manner, to support them in achieving their identified goals.
- Monitors and evaluates occupational therapy treatment in order to measure progress and modifies treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions.
- Provides reports on service user progress at clinical meetings and participates in the clinical decision-making process regarding service user care programmes as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provides advice, education and training to service users, carers and other healthcare staff involved in service users care.
- Undertakes health promotion activities.
- Assesses service users for and fits adapted equipment in the home, as appropriate.
- Acts as lead professional for service users if no other professional is involved in the service users care and may undertake care co-ordination for service users on Care Programme Approach where there is an occupational therapy component identified.
- Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of service user harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the service user. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
- Demonstrates safe moving and handling of service users, using equipment as required.
- Demonstrates safe physical interventions in the management of violence and aggression as required.
FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE SEE JD ATTACHED
Person Specification
Job related
Essential
- BSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Equivalent
- Knowledge of Mental Health
- HCPC Registration
Desirable
- Experience of working in Mental Health
- Knowledge of model partic MoCA
- Experience of using Sensory Strategies with People with Mental Health Problems
Person Specification
Job related
Essential
- BSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Equivalent
- Knowledge of Mental Health
- HCPC Registration
Desirable
- Experience of working in Mental Health
- Knowledge of model partic MoCA
- Experience of using Sensory Strategies with People with Mental Health Problems
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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