Senior Practitioner - Occupational Therapist

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is an exciting and rare opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Intensive Home Treat Team based in ACMH - IHTT Airedale

We are looking for someone to provide a high standard of care for service users within the Acute Community Services in Bradford.

You will be involved in the development of an innovative and tailored Occupational Therapy services to support adults, including older age adults, within an acute mental health setting.

As an Occupational therapist you will be providing clinical risk and mental health assessments, formulations and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis as well as Occupational Therapy assessments. Working within the community, you will provide a range of face-to-face brief, solution focused interventions empowering service users, carers and their families in decision making and signpost to a range of health and social care resources for support.

Closing Date: 1st February 2023

Shortlisting Date: 2nd February 2023

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of care and treatment interventions for individual patients within the Acute Community Services, including, older adult service users.

Act as the Clinical Practitioner within a shift to ensure that the care of patients is of the highest standard.
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development of programmes of care, the implementation and evaluation of these programmes.
Support the Team Manager and Senior Practitioner to meet quality standards, implement policy & procedure.
Manage a clinical caseload from the Acute Mental Health Adult Care Service under the supervision of a Senior Occupational Therapist.
Formulate and deliver interventions to meet functional, occupational, & environmental needs in negotiation with the Service User and in liaison with Care Navigator, Carers and relevant others,
Work within the occupational therapy process utilising specialist standardised assessments where appropriate.
Carry out holistic assessments, individual or group interventions in the most appropriate environmental setting e.g. hospital, community, home, workplace to facilitate seamless continuation of care.
Support recovery, social inclusion, maintenance or development of roles and responsibilities within the domains of self care productivity or leisure. Promote and maximise potential for independence.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 - 7

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

20 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-23-4955679

Job locations

ACMH – IHTT Airedale

Skipton Road

Bradford

BD20 6TA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Occupational Therapy
Registered (or pending registration) with the Health and Care Professions Council

Desirable

Practice Placement Educator training

Experience

Essential

Experience in relevant area of Mental Health in field of practice
Knowledge of evidence based models of practice, assessments and interventions and strong reflective practice and clinical reasoning skills.
Knowledge and experience in supervision and leadership with registered and non-registered staff and students.

Desirable

Experience in staff appraisal, supervision and staff development.
Experience/knowledge of mental health needs and associated difficulties in older age adults

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Occupational Therapy
Registered (or pending registration) with the Health and Care Professions Council

Desirable

Practice Placement Educator training

Experience

Essential

Experience in relevant area of Mental Health in field of practice
Knowledge of evidence based models of practice, assessments and interventions and strong reflective practice and clinical reasoning skills.
Knowledge and experience in supervision and leadership with registered and non-registered staff and students.

Desirable

Experience in staff appraisal, supervision and staff development.
Experience/knowledge of mental health needs and associated difficulties in older age adults

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).