Occupational Therapist within the Perinatal Mental Health Service

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To select and apply Occupational Therapy Assessments addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
• To undertake generic initial assessments and collaboratively identify with the service users priorities from the MDT including, but not limited specialist OT goals.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of work.
• To undertake the OT assessment of service user using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individual treatment plans.
• To accept clinical responsibility under supervision for a designated generic case load including complex presentations taking on the role of lead professional.
• To plan and implement service user-centred, trauma informed care for individual and group interventions, using clinical reasoning and a range of treatment interventions to achieve therapeutic goals.
• To monitor, evaluate progress and modify treatment for service user to ensure effective intervention.
• To demonstrate an understanding of the effect of disability and recommend adaptations to the service users social and physical environment.
• To assess the occupational therapy needs of a defined service user group and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment programmes.
• To work in consultation with other professionals making known concerns regarding safeguarding children and/or adults to the appropriate and responsible service. This includes attending Child Protection Pre-Birth and Review Conferences as appropriate where the child is at risk.
• To be mindful of the needs of parents and their families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
• To provide services in working conditions which may be hazardous e.g., exposure to body fluids, aggressive persons, visits to high-risk areas and associated travel risks.
• To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with service user who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• To undertake occasional therapeutic moving and handling of service users and equipment, utilising moderate physical effort within clinical and non-clinical settings.
• To work with service users and families who may have distressing social/clinical circumstances.
• To undertake the duty triage system on a rostered basis including management of incoming or onward referrals, assessments, phone calls and psychiatric emergencies.

Service Development

• To participate in the planning, evaluation and audit of practice, clinical pathways and protocols within the service area.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified OT BSc or MSc
• Registered in HCPC

Desirable

• oPractice Placement qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Documented evidence of continuing professional development
• Clinical OT experience working with women with serious mental illness as in-patient and/or community mental health.

Desirable

• Post registration experience in relevant clinical setting
• Experience of research and audit

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of Occupational Therapy Models of practice
• Up to date knowledge of evidence-based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health care.
• Awareness and knowledge developments specifically relating to O.T. within perinatal mental health care.
• Application of the Occupational Therapy process with designated service user group
• Assessment, planning and delivery of therapy interventions.
• Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
• Understanding of issues around information sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
• Knowledge of relevant national and local policy drivers for this field.

Desirable

• Knowledge and application of standardised assessments
• Training skills
• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Argyll House

9 Williamson Rd, Nether Edge

Sheffield

S11 9AR

Employer's website

https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/working-us (Opens in a new tab)