An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic full time Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Occupational Therapy team working in the liaison psychiatry team in County Durham and Darlington. This post is based with the North Durham team within University Hospital of North Durham and Sniperley House at Lanchester Road hospital.

As a Specialist occupational therapist in TEWV you will manage a complex caseload independently, assessing occupational performance and delivering specialist occupational interventions, demonstrating adherence to the Trust Values at all times and operating as a leader in the team, service and organisation

Main duties of the job

• 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-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
• To participate in clinical/professional and management supervision
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working
• To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives
• To use the Trust electronic patient record system
• To abide by all Trust policies and procedures
• To be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges

About us

The multi-disciplinary team works with adults and older people with complex mental health needs whilst inpatient in County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and their families/ carers to deliver assessment and treatment of complex mental health needs with the aims of:

• Reduced length of in-patient stay at Acute and Community hospitals
• Reduced attendances at Accident and Emergency
• Reduced admissions, investigations and outpatient attendances by top 50 'frequent attenders'
• Reduced admissions from A& E into acute hospitals
• Increased proportion of patients returning to their usual place of residence
• Reduction in repeat self-harm presentations to A& E subsequent admissions
• Increased detection and treatment of depression
• Increased detection and diagnosis of dementia
• Increased detection and diagnosis of delirium

You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network in TEWV, 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will provide evidence-based occupational therapy assessment and interventions as part of the OT Pathway linked to dementia, delirium and functional mental health, and offer input to individuals, their families and carers, in acute and community hospital settings and their own homes.

All team members must be committed to providing the best possible care for the people we work with and their families/carers.

The ability to engage and communicate with people with a wide range of complex mental health presentations including dementia, delirium and depression as well as their family/ carers and system around them is essential.

Clinical/Professional supervision is provided by the supervising Occupational Therapist as identified by the relevant Lead OT. The postholder will attend OT Learning and Governance Networks to ensure fidelity to core occupational therapy delivery, enhance CPD and contribute to the wider OT service developments.

You must be able to demonstrate experience of delivery of occupational therapy, keenness to continually develop themselves and others, and a particular interest in this field of OT. We will support use of transferrable skills from a range of clinical settings.

There are varied opportunities for training and development, with CPD needs being identified and monitored through appraisal.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• Registration with HCPC
• Successful completion of preceptorship year as a graduate occupational therapist (or equivalent in non-NHS sectors)
• Clinical Supervisory Skills course (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale).
• Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
• Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Accredited Practice Placement Educator (APPLE)
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area.

Registration with HCPC

Essential

• 2

essential

Essential

• Clinical Supervisory Skills course (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale).

Desirable

• on-going

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University of North Durham Hospital

North Road

County Durham

DH1 5TW

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346-DDM-080-23