Occupational Therapist Mental Health

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 11 October 2024

Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Inpatient Occupational Therapy Team at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit, on our acute wards. We are looking for a Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Occupational Therapist to join our large friendly Occupational Therapy team.

As a Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Occupational Therapist you will working closely with a Band 3 Occupational Therapy Assistant to provide specialist/complex Occupational Therapy Assessments and interventions to our patients. As a team you will provide a structured Occupational Therapy Programme with a combination of groups and individual sessions to enhance our service delivery, to ensure we provide equity for all patients across a range of Occupational Therapy Pathways including Functional/Physical Health/Cognitive/Sensory.

Working together as a team in this way will ensure we deliver high quality therapeutic care to patients who are experiencing deterioration in their mental health. The remit of the team is to provide a range of occupational focused therapeutic interventions to support the patient journey of recovery from admission through to discharge.

If you would like further information or would like to arrange a visit to meet us, then please call 0116 2252669.

Main duties of the job

You'll have the opportunity to deliver high quality treatment programmes that support recovery of working age individuals detained under both criminal and civil sections of the Mental Health Act, who experience severe and enduring mental health challenges. Your ability to show your leadership skills by working with others to support patients' recovery journey through good communication and delegating tasks to the OTAs and other members of the team to build and enhance others skills, competencies and confidence.

We look forward to seeing you demonstrate and promote our trust values and behaviours, and this will be demonstrated through the leadership and daily support to your patients, your Occupational Therapy colleagues and wider MDT to ensure we STEP up to GREAT together. We will fully induct you to the site and service.

We will protect and dedicate time for you to access regular supervision from a senior Occupational Therapist plus monthly peer supervision and be supported to develop and enhance your skills through external training and our well-established in-service training.

You will be required to work a set working pattern Monday to Friday 8.00am- 4.00pm, these times are negotiable and can be discussed at interview.

Car driver is not essential for this post.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

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 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

Date posted

05 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

001289

Job locations

Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital

Groby Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9EJ

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.