Job summary
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
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 of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Current State Registration Certificate
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in low secure / rehabilitation settings.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in a mental health setting.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant clinical experience, such as clinical placement.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of the role of an Occupational Therapist in the mental health setting.
- Good understanding of MOHO theory and assessment.
- Good understanding of risk assessment.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of Psychosocial Interventions (PSI) and the stress vulnerability model (SVM).
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Aware of the role of other members of the MDT.
- Aware of the limitations of Occupational Therapy
- Able to work as a team member, to manage own time, to complete a task and own caseload.
- Able to write clear clinical reports for interdisciplinary meetings, CPA and MHART.
- Able to work under pressure.
- Flexible to meet the needs of the service.
- Able to present information clearly in formal situations.
Desirable criteria
- Non-judgemental
- Able to accept advice and to act on it.
- Able to set a good example to others.
- Assertive.
- Negotiating skills.
- Able to use initiative.
- Aware of the needs of others
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vanessa Moreland
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01617163881
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
- Telephone
- 01617163181
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