Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Hub Occupational Therapy Team at the Hartington Unit initially and move with the team into the new unit called the Derwent Unit. This is a full time substantive post. Our services are a multi-disciplinary team, providing person-centred holistic care to patients with a wide variety of mental health conditions.

As a Band 6 clinician you are required to hold a clinical caseload, along with line management and support for junior staff.

Main duties of the job

As an Occupational Therapist in the team, you will support patients who would benefit from occupational therapy intervention.

• You will play a key role in delivering holistic, person-centred assessments and therapeutic interventions.
• This will include offering clinical advice on the assessment and intervention of clients' occupational and functional needs.
• You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• You will embrace the delivery of best practice guidelines for Mental Health and Occupational Therapy.
• You will need to be a dynamic clinician with good interpersonal skills to enable engagement of service users and their families or carers.
• You will be able to make complex decisions, formulate detailed assessments and person-centred care plans to assist treatment during inpatient admissions.
• Supporting students during their placement.
• Supervision of junior staff including Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants.
• Developing and maintaining a high level of activity programmes for the ward.
• Professional development, learning, supervision, wider support and training is provided.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities