Occupational Therapist inStockport inStockport PUBLISHED FRI 8 NOV 2024

Band 5: £29,970 to £36,483 a year PA pro rata PERMANENT GOOD SALARY

INTENSIVE CARE UNIT NHS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Pennine Care NHS FT rLpIFIvA

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join the team at Woodbank Ward, a female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Stockport. The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing, treating, and reviewing females experiencing serious mental illness (SMI) within this six-bedded facility. The role involves utilizing clinical reasoning to plan and implement individualized treatment plans and group sessions while actively contributing to the multidisciplinary team's management and care strategies for patients.

Key responsibilities include conducting appropriate assessments, providing clinical support, delivering in-service training, developing community links for improved social inclusion, and maintaining confidentiality and professional relationships with patients and their families. Additionally, the Occupational Therapist will manage petty cash to support rehabilitation efforts. Candidates are encouraged to refer to the job description and person specification for essential criteria that highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience necessary for a successful application.

Post: Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Location/Base: Woodbank Ward-Female PICU Rehabilitation and High Support Directorate (RHSD)-

Woodbank have a great opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our team on a female PICU, working alongside a MDT on a new ward which has new facilities to promote recovery.

Job Summary

To provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and review of service users who experience serious mental Illness (SMI). The post holder will work at Woodbank a 6 bedded female PICU . You will be expected to use your own initiative and clinical reasoning to plan and carry out treatment, run treatment groups and to contribute to the MDT management and treatment of our service users.

Main Duties &Responsibilities

Clinical:

To carry out appropriate assessment and treatment of allocated patients.

To plan, conduct and participate in various treatment sessions in response to assessment and need.
To provide clinical and other support to multidisciplinary team.
To carry out 1:1 and group sessions.
To work in close liaison with other disciplines involved in the care and treatment of patients allocated to you.
To provide in-service training.
To develop and maintain community links to increase social inclusion and community integration.
To maintain strict confidentiality regarding any information concerning patients.
To establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, their relations and friends and to support and promote patients' rights and identity.
To be responsible for the day to day management of petty cash and its use to promote rehabilitation.

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Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

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