Occupational Therapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic part-time (30 hour) Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our team. The Mental Health for Older Peoples Community Team is based within the Durham Tees Valley Care Group covering the Redcar and Cleveland area and is located at Reedmarsh House, Redcar.

The multi-disciplinary team works with older people and their families to deliver high quality, patient centred care to both males and females with a diagnosis or those undergoing diagnostic assessment of/for a functional or organic mental health condition.

We are looking for an OT who can work flexibly to meet service need and has the vision, energy and inspiration to develop creative, imaginative solutions to delivering occupational therapy with older people and families.

You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network in MHSOP Tees to develop a way of delivering a high quality, needs-led OT service, utilising core occupational therapy skills to ensure all of the people we work with have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Main duties of the job

Occupationally focused assessments and interventions will be delivered as part of a dynamic service delivery model that has a strong commitment to collaborative working at its core whilst recognising the unique skills of all professional groups represented in the team.Additional focus is on delivering high quality evidence-based services that support recovery, occupational formulation and occupational engagement. The delivery of occupational therapy 1:1 and in groups is required.To be responsible for receiving requests for occupational therapy, triaging and prioritising these, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.To use client-centred approaches to co-produce negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.To participate in clinical/professional and management supervisionTo contribute to multi-disciplinary team workingTo contribute to service improvement and quality initiativesTo use the Trust electronic patient record systemTo abide by all Trust policies and proceduresTo be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges

About us

To work best in the team we are looking for candidates who are highly patient focused, confident in their emerging skill set, dynamic and resilient. We will accept applications from those whose registration is pending.

The post will offer varied opportunities for training and development, with CPD needs being identified and monitored through appraisal. Well defined supervision systems are in place.