Job summary
PICS are pleased to be able to offer a Band 6 Development post as a First Contact Practitioner Mental Health Occupational Therapist. (FCP MHOT). This post sits within the Byron PCN, South Nottinghamshire areas within Primary Care. Mental Health OT is a new role in primary care therefore we are looking to support the development of a Band 6 clinician into a Band 7 First Contact Practitioner within one year. This is not a guaranteed uplift to Band 7, this will depend upon the post holder successfully completing all Band 7 competencies. You will receive support and feedback on your development over the year by following the structured competencies for the role.
You will be supported during your development period by experienced clinicians to meet the required Band 7 competencies and to then become a Band 7 FCP MHOT. You will have regular support to progress your skills in the role both as Band 6 and once you progress into a Band 7 role.
You will be joining an established team of Mental Health Occupational Therapists within Byron and PICS. We are dedicated about ensuring that our patients see the right person in the right place, first time and receive quality intervention.
You will be supported by a wider team of clinicians including a Lead GP, a Mental Health Practitioner and our Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead who is on the PICS Leadership Team.
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- The ability to manage a mental health patient cohort of triaged patients, completing assessment and intervention in primary care, including group work. You will progress to completing autonomous advanced assessments, triage and treatment of acute and chronic presentations for patients with mental health concerns attending primary care.
- To help patients identify their needs and make shared decisions about management using current evidenced based practice.
- Liaise with Primary Care colleagues to ensure that all the patients needs are addressed.
- Support Primary Care colleagues development in the best treatment and onward management strategies by attending meetings, delivering educational sessions and supporting PCN Practitioners.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- HCPC registered
- Occupational Therapy Qualification and Registration or equivalent.
- Experience working in Adult Mental Health
- Completion of the First Contact Practitioner Module is required once in the post and completion of the first training year, you do not need to complete the module prior to application. You will be supported by the clinical lead and PCN to develop your primary care skills to succeed on the module
About us
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deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services,
Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out
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Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
As an experienced Occupational Therapist with a mental health background, you will be supported to develop into a First Contact Practitioner. You will develop to provide independent, holistic assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. You will progress to be able to work at a fast pace whilst ensuring that assessments are thorough, risk is managed and treatment is collaboratively designed with the patient and carers.
Your role will initially involve intervention after an initial assessment by a GP or Band 7 Mental Health OT. You will be leading on group work. To meet the competencies of the Band 7 role you will progress over the year to become a First Contact Practitioner leading complex mental health assessments in the primary care environment and managing the patient appropriately.
The post holder will:
- Work across the PCN, being flexible to the individual working of each surgery.
- Work closely with the Clinical Director and current Mental Health OTs to design and deliver a service tailored to the needs of PCN.
- Provide occupational therapy assessments booked in by GPs and MHOTs and progress to first contact assessment of patients, booked in by reception, presenting with mental health difficulties.
- Assess presentation, risk and suitably devise a treatment plan in a time-limited appointment.
- Provide an assessment appointment and a follow up appointment, where required, and utilise local community, charity and secondary care services to provide ongoing support to patients. This will require building close working relationships with other services and being aware of the needs of the local community as well as available resources and services.
- Be able to lead group sessions and adapt management as required
- Be able to safely assess and manage risk and be aware of Safeguarding and local policy and procedure.
- Be visible across the PCN offering face to face and telephone appointments to meet the needs of the patients.
- Work across organisational boundaries, developing new ways of working to promote relationships to increase the quality of patient care and service within primary care.
- Provide a high level of occupational therapy/professional care and treatment to patients through high quality occupational therapy care, assessment, and therapeutic intervention to adults with complex and substantial difficulties as part of a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Work autonomously to undertake advanced practice procedures and promote recovery and wellbeing, maximising independence.
- Facilitate mainstream primary care services for adults with mental health and/or learning difficulties and/or cognitive problems to advise and support agencies with regard to meeting their duty of care.
- Be responsible for disseminating information about good practice and lead on the implementation of good practice that has been developed within the Primary Care Network.
- Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Professional Leadership and Development
- To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.
- To adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice at all times.
- To reflect on own practice individually and/or through regular clinical supervision and meeting the goals of the FCP competencies.
- Provide clinical education, training, and evaluation of clinical competence of team and multidisciplinary team staff, providing support and guidance.
- To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.
- To critically evaluate own work through the use of evidence-based projects, audits, and outcome measures.
- To work autonomously as an Occupational Therapist within professional and PICS guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Communication and Relationships
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation, and counselling.
- Be able to provide concise summary of appointments, raise any concerns to appropriate professionals, communicate treatment plan and request additional support or requirements from GP or other Healthcare Professional.
- Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals including de-escalation skills when working in highly antagonistic, hostile, and emotive clinical areas.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise barriers to understanding that can be encountered with those without English as their first language, patients with disabilities and those with mental health difficulties such as anxiety, clinical depression, or personality disorders.
- Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.
- The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in relation to patient care and will have the ability to advise and support others to communicate information in an understandable, empathic, and reassuring way to adults with Mental Health and/or Learning Disabilities and/or Cognitive difficulties and their family and carers.
- Utilise communications in accordance with Caldicott Principles, Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act and Trust Policies and procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
- Occupational Therapy qualification HCPC registered occupational therapist.
- Specialist knowledge of meeting the health needs of Adults with Mental Health underpinned by theory and experience, demonstrated with experience working in Mental Health roles.
- In depth knowledge of National and HCPC policies, procedures, code of conduct and standards of care in relation to service provision for adults with mental health.
- Post qualification experience of working collaboratively with statutory partners, third sector partners and families/carers.
- Knowledge of safeguarding adult and childrens procedures and the ability to take on a lead role in strategy meetings as and when required.
- Developed skills from a wide and variant background, experience and a broad yet deep knowledge base underpinned with a proven track record and/or an academically scrutinised knowledge base.
- Proven professional development, a profile that demonstrates, advanced clinical occupational therapy practice.
- Systematic understanding of how to manage a designated, complex, occupational therapy caseload using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing occupational therapy interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans.
- Offer advanced consultation skills and developed specialist and generic knowledge to undertake comprehensive assessment of health and psychosocial care needs of patients with complex disease, including holistic assessment, gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing results.
- Analytical judgement underpinned with specialist knowledge and experience is used to develop evidenced based holistic personal care plan with patients, carers, relatives and health care professionals based on a full assessment.
- Provide evidence based written information, ensuring easy access to advice and information for patients and their carers.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft and GP practice data monitoring systems, training provided on SystemOne Software as required.
- Ability to write comprehensive clinical notes, implement and evaluate care plans.
- Provides specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care
- Participate in the education, induction programmes and support meetings for other professional staff.
- Monitor own performance by reflective practice and identify training and educational needs.
- Regular self-direction of learning needs.
- Maintain up to date mandatory training records.
- Identify the potential benefits of, and participating in, educational programmes for patients and their relatives/carers.
- Ensure own compliance and compliance of others regarding mandatory training and individual health professional requirements.
For more information, please see the supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
As an experienced Occupational Therapist with a mental health background, you will be supported to develop into a First Contact Practitioner. You will develop to provide independent, holistic assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. You will progress to be able to work at a fast pace whilst ensuring that assessments are thorough, risk is managed and treatment is collaboratively designed with the patient and carers.
Your role will initially involve intervention after an initial assessment by a GP or Band 7 Mental Health OT. You will be leading on group work. To meet the competencies of the Band 7 role you will progress over the year to become a First Contact Practitioner leading complex mental health assessments in the primary care environment and managing the patient appropriately.
The post holder will:
- Work across the PCN, being flexible to the individual working of each surgery.
- Work closely with the Clinical Director and current Mental Health OTs to design and deliver a service tailored to the needs of PCN.
- Provide occupational therapy assessments booked in by GPs and MHOTs and progress to first contact assessment of patients, booked in by reception, presenting with mental health difficulties.
- Assess presentation, risk and suitably devise a treatment plan in a time-limited appointment.
- Provide an assessment appointment and a follow up appointment, where required, and utilise local community, charity and secondary care services to provide ongoing support to patients. This will require building close working relationships with other services and being aware of the needs of the local community as well as available resources and services.
- Be able to lead group sessions and adapt management as required
- Be able to safely assess and manage risk and be aware of Safeguarding and local policy and procedure.
- Be visible across the PCN offering face to face and telephone appointments to meet the needs of the patients.
- Work across organisational boundaries, developing new ways of working to promote relationships to increase the quality of patient care and service within primary care.
- Provide a high level of occupational therapy/professional care and treatment to patients through high quality occupational therapy care, assessment, and therapeutic intervention to adults with complex and substantial difficulties as part of a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Work autonomously to undertake advanced practice procedures and promote recovery and wellbeing, maximising independence.
- Facilitate mainstream primary care services for adults with mental health and/or learning difficulties and/or cognitive problems to advise and support agencies with regard to meeting their duty of care.
- Be responsible for disseminating information about good practice and lead on the implementation of good practice that has been developed within the Primary Care Network.
- Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Professional Leadership and Development
- To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.
- To adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice at all times.
- To reflect on own practice individually and/or through regular clinical supervision and meeting the goals of the FCP competencies.
- Provide clinical education, training, and evaluation of clinical competence of team and multidisciplinary team staff, providing support and guidance.
- To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.
- To critically evaluate own work through the use of evidence-based projects, audits, and outcome measures.
- To work autonomously as an Occupational Therapist within professional and PICS guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Communication and Relationships
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation, and counselling.
- Be able to provide concise summary of appointments, raise any concerns to appropriate professionals, communicate treatment plan and request additional support or requirements from GP or other Healthcare Professional.
- Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals including de-escalation skills when working in highly antagonistic, hostile, and emotive clinical areas.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise barriers to understanding that can be encountered with those without English as their first language, patients with disabilities and those with mental health difficulties such as anxiety, clinical depression, or personality disorders.
- Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.
- The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in relation to patient care and will have the ability to advise and support others to communicate information in an understandable, empathic, and reassuring way to adults with Mental Health and/or Learning Disabilities and/or Cognitive difficulties and their family and carers.
- Utilise communications in accordance with Caldicott Principles, Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act and Trust Policies and procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
- Occupational Therapy qualification HCPC registered occupational therapist.
- Specialist knowledge of meeting the health needs of Adults with Mental Health underpinned by theory and experience, demonstrated with experience working in Mental Health roles.
- In depth knowledge of National and HCPC policies, procedures, code of conduct and standards of care in relation to service provision for adults with mental health.
- Post qualification experience of working collaboratively with statutory partners, third sector partners and families/carers.
- Knowledge of safeguarding adult and childrens procedures and the ability to take on a lead role in strategy meetings as and when required.
- Developed skills from a wide and variant background, experience and a broad yet deep knowledge base underpinned with a proven track record and/or an academically scrutinised knowledge base.
- Proven professional development, a profile that demonstrates, advanced clinical occupational therapy practice.
- Systematic understanding of how to manage a designated, complex, occupational therapy caseload using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing occupational therapy interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans.
- Offer advanced consultation skills and developed specialist and generic knowledge to undertake comprehensive assessment of health and psychosocial care needs of patients with complex disease, including holistic assessment, gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing results.
- Analytical judgement underpinned with specialist knowledge and experience is used to develop evidenced based holistic personal care plan with patients, carers, relatives and health care professionals based on a full assessment.
- Provide evidence based written information, ensuring easy access to advice and information for patients and their carers.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft and GP practice data monitoring systems, training provided on SystemOne Software as required.
- Ability to write comprehensive clinical notes, implement and evaluate care plans.
- Provides specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care
- Participate in the education, induction programmes and support meetings for other professional staff.
- Monitor own performance by reflective practice and identify training and educational needs.
- Regular self-direction of learning needs.
- Maintain up to date mandatory training records.
- Identify the potential benefits of, and participating in, educational programmes for patients and their relatives/carers.
- Ensure own compliance and compliance of others regarding mandatory training and individual health professional requirements.
For more information, please see the supporting documents.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your HCPC professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your HCPC professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
