Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist (The Willows)

Job summary

*This post has a Recruitment bonus of £1000*

Do you have an interest in working with people with dementia? Are you interested in working with other health care professionals from different organizations in a community setting? Would you want to be at the forefront of a new service aiming to provide "wrap around" care in a newly commissioned bed base? If so then this may be the opportunity for you to make a positive difference.

This is an exciting dynamic service that has been designed to meet the needs of older people with Dementia and we are looking to recruit individuals who have the passion, skills and experience to work with older people who have a Dementia.

We are keen to recruit into the following position

• Registered Occupational Therapist at band 5

The is a 10 bedded unit for people who following discharge from hospital would present with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and require 24 hour care, you will work in partnership with Local authority and Leeds Community Healthcare.

The role of successful candidates will be to support staff who works permanently within the unit, providing support, advice and a range of person centred interventions based to meet the individualised needs of the person with dementia.

The team will operate alongside our trust care homes service under the same operating model with defined tasks, roles and responsibilities. We strongly recommend contacting the service prior to making an application.

Main duties of the job

The post would require you to support our partner organisations within a mental health specialist team using skills from your professional background of occupational therapy. Mental health assessment, functional assessment (OTs), care planning and interventions will be core to your care coordinator role as well as partnership working and effective communication with family/carers. You will be required to supervise junior occupational therapy staff. You will also be required to arrange and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings and care programme approach meetings. You may role model or advise approaches to our partner organisations that help service users maintain good wellbeing, quality of life and encourage meaningful activity as part of your role.

About us

To help attract experienced Occupational therapists to this exciting opportunity we are pleased to be able to offer a "golden hello" Recruitment Bonus of £1000 for any experienced Nurses & Occupational therapists joining our Older Peoples Service. This Recruitment Bonus is available to all externalexperienced *job title* and will be paid £500 upon commencement with LYPFT, and then £500 per year following 12 months in post. Unfortunately, this bonus is not available to existing LYPFT staff.

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 against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MDT Wrap Around

Leeds

LS2 9LN

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MDT Wrap Around

Leeds

LS2 9LN

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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