An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and confident Band 5 Occupational Therapist, who has a passion for working with people with learning disabilities, to join the community learning disability team (CLDT) in Leeds. You will work alongside a senior OT and multi-disciplinary team in the ENE CLDT and be part of a wider occupational therapy service who work across the city of Leeds.

As an occupational therapist in LYPFT you will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary CLDT, offering a comprehensive service to service users who require specialist health interventions. You will utilise your core occupational therapy skills in providing occupational therapy treatment as appropriate for CLDT.

Main duties of the job

• To carry responsibility for your own clinical caseload and be responsible for OT assessment and treatment to service users with a learning disability whose needs require specialised OT provision.
• To have an understanding of the health needs in relation to occupational performance of a learning disability population and the experience of applying the acquired skills and knowledge to support Service Users in a health setting.
• To participate in clinical/professional and management supervision
• To use the Trust electronic patient record system
• To abide by all Trust policies and procedures
• To work closely with other professionals and teams within the learning disability service and other external services

To contribute to the service development of the city-wide Occupational Therapy Service.

About us

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health. We perform well againstlocal and national targetsand inour most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

Job description
Job responsibilities

• To identify and prioritise on Occupational Therapy issues in conjunction with Band 6 OT and operational team.
• To be responsible and accountable for planning and organising work diary balancing clinical responsibilities, appointments, MDT responsibilities and service development opportunities.
• To use evidence based practice in planning, providing, evaluating a therapeutic group and activity programmes as appropriate to the needs of the team and service user group.
• To provide high quality OT practice within the clinical setting and to establish excellent working relationships with OT colleagues in community and inpatients settings which may include the implementation of OT colleagues care plans.
• To offer a range of comprehensive standardised and none-standardised OT assessments and plan and implement care and treatment as appropriate, making use of validated rating scales/outcome measures, risk and assessment protocols.
• To provide clinical supervision of therapy assistants and students to maintain safe standards of practice as regards to the implementation of OT care plans.
• To provide advice, support and information to service users, carers and staff around OT issues.
• To demonstrate autonomous decision making with an awareness of when to seek support from clinical supervisor or MDT member as appropriate.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Professional Qualification BSc/Dip/MSc OT

Experience
Essential

• Good understanding of the difficulties experienced by people with mental health and/or physical health needs and how this impacts on function

Skills
Essential

• Ability to work as a member of the MDT and a positive approach to team working
• To be a car driver and have access to a car for work purposes.

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