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Bank Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Employer
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Location
Leicester
Salary
£24,907-£30,615
Closing date
2 Jul 2022

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Grade
Band 5
Hours
Full Time
Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Employer:

Leicestershire Partnership Trust

Department:

Directorate of Mental Health

Occupational Therapy

Location:

Leicester/Leicestershire/Rutland

Can you demonstrate our values of Trust, Respect, Integrity and Compassion? Do you share in our ambition to create high quality, compassionate care and wellbeing for all?

Then take a step towards LPT...

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1m people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We are recruiting Bank Band 5 Occupational Therapists to join our innovative and well supported team working in mental health, across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The Team

We have teams in both adult and older adult mental health settings including acute in-patient, community teams, forensic, rehabilitation, memory service and Huntington’s disease services. The teams are very supportive and inclusive. We have regular meetings and can support your CPD through a variety of activities and team days aimed at sharing best practice and learning. It is a great environment to develop your career.

The roles will be enhanced by an induction programme and continuing professional development opportunities including team days and in service training workshops. The service provides a well-regarded and successful support programme including mentoring, buddying and supervision.

You will need strong engagement and motivational skills and be flexible in working with service users with complex mental health needs during their acute and recovery phases of illness.

Successful candidate will be confident in applying evidence-based models of occupational therapy that focus on maintaining and restoring functional ability and occupational participation. You will need strong engagement and motivational skills and be flexible in working with service users with complex mental health needs during their acute and recovery phases of illness.

An important part of your role will be in undertaking the Occupational Therapy Process using an Occupational Therapy Model completing an Initial Assessment, Functional, Physical, Cognitive Assessments & Interventions and Discharge

We have attached an indicative Occupational Therapist Job description to this advert to give you an indication of the type of role this is, although specific duties will vary from team to team and depend on the nature of the patients that the team deals with.

Join the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust’s Bank
  • Excellent pay rates
  • Annual leave accruals
  • Flexible hours to meet your needs
  • Paid mandatory training
  • Access to pension scheme

The post holder will be required to work closely with other allied health professionals and other clinical staff under minimal supervision, and on their own initiative

For more information, please call Paul Cooke Clinical Lead OT AMH 07771837398

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

313-A-21-99615-SF

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