This role is that of a senior Occupational Therapist. The role is based within a Local Mental Health Teams (LMHT) in Nottingham City. The LMHT's provide community services for those aged 18-65 with a range of significant mental health issues including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, severe anxiety, and personality disorders. We aim to provide the best quality care and treatment for patients who are experiencing significant mental illness by having a collaborative approach, is recovery focus, having the patient, their carers and family at the centre of what we provide.

The LMHT prides itself on a strong culture of multi-disciplinary team working, including mental health nurses, nurse associates, peer support workers, psychiatrists, community support workers, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapy assistants, administrative staff, managers, and early career apprentices. The successful candidate will be an advocate for OT within the team, as well as providing occupation-focussed person-centred interventions.

Main duties of the job

• Conducting specialist OT assessments, planning interventions, and organising OT care.
• Monitoring OT inventions and supervising more junior staff, including B5 OT , assistants and students
• Manage and prioritise a defined caseload of OT clients
• Delivering evidence-based interventions for clients with complex mental health needs
• Contributing to the MDT meetings, to patient care across the team and with partnership organisations
• Actively work to continually develop the service in a client-centred and evidence-based context
• Covering duty and Triage on a rota basis
• Follow the professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career yet further and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits, tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

• To maintain an individual caseload being responsible for assessment, evidenced based interventions / treatment and evaluation.
• Understanding of service users needs relating to active rehabilitation and impact on functional ability.
• To evaluate interventions and ensure effective outcomes.
• To prioritise caseload allocation and to ensure appropriate service delivery.
• To utilise core specialist OT skills within adult mental health care.
• To work across health and social care boundaries.
• Implement and co-ordinate a range of group work and individual work.
• To use expertise to deliver therapeutic interventions to service users with complex needs.
• To carry out effective discharge planning.
• To work with service users carers and their families with diverse needs.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• HCPC registered
• Degree/diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Specialist knowledge/post registration experience in a mental health setting.

Desirable

• Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration.

essential
Essential

• Specialist mental health knowledge post registration

Desirable

• Relevant training to the post

Experience/Skills
Essential

• Excellent Team working skills
• Case management
• Experience of working in community mental health setting
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to undertake specialist OT assessments and interventions based on current evidence base and service user need for this client group.
• Experience of Quality and Audit.
• Effective risk management skills.
• Ability to motivate clients and staff.
• Use and provision of clinical supervision.
• Ability to lead and support colleagues.
• Good IT skills.

Desirable

• Experience of supervising and leading staff

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• A driving licence is required for this post

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