Occupational Therapist Senior Practitioner inGreater Manachester inGreater Manachester PUBLISHED
THU 24 OCT 2024
In addition to a stimulating work environment, the position offers various staff benefits such as enhanced pay for evenings and weekends, generous annual leave, an excellent pension scheme, and discounts through the Blue Light Card. The Senior Occupational Therapist will play a crucial role in supporting clients with complex needs and facilitating their recovery while fostering a collaborative team atmosphere.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist senior practitioner to become part of the team on John Denmark Unit, which is an 18 bedded, deaf specialist, mixed gender acute/rehab unit. The JDU provides high standards for specialist NHS mental health services to deaf people throughout the north of England, Wales and Scotland.
We are looking for a self motivated, pro-active and compassionate role model with highly developed organisational and interpersonal skills to support our multi-disciplinary team in delivering an exceptional standard of care to our service users. We are looking for someone who will role model a 'can do' attitude and be flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of our diverse service and the changing demands associated with an acute/rehab mental health care setting.
This post will appeal to someone who has an interest in mental health, genuinely wishes to care for others and contribute towards their recovery. The role will involve completing Occupational Therapy assessments for a designated caseload, addressing Occupational Therapy performance and skills deficits utilising the Model of Human Occupation and the OT clinical pathway. Our ideal candidate would have experience of caring for people with functional illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia etc, and dementia. Experience of working within a deaf mental health residential or community setting would be desirable.
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The Post Holder will be responsible for:
- Coordination of day to day adult inpatient OT Service delivery to ensure effective consistent and equitable access to OT services.
- To contribute to the development and evaluation of the OT service within the care group and take a lead in aspects of service development
- To work with OT Professional lead and Head of OT to agree strategic professional action plans and implementation.
- Provide OT advice to the MDT
- Provide specialist OT input to the planning, development and evaluation of clinical services, holding responsibility for defined projects.
- Offer specialist OT assessments and interventions to a case load of clients with complex needs. Assessments and interventions will identify barriers and support clients to achieving functional goals.
- Contribute to the planning, development, provision and evaluation of the OT Services within the Deaf inpatient Division as well as taking a lead in aspects of audit, standard setting, research and development.
- They will be responsible for the prioritisation of referrals for OT and the provision of an evidence-based OT service.
- Be responsible for professional provision.
- Provide professional supervision and induction to junior staff and students as well as training to students, staff colleagues and other agencies.
- They will have a flexible approach to working hours to meet the requirements of service users.
- Provide an OTperspective in inpatient management team meetings.
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Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
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