Specialist OT

This role may be eligible for recruitment incentives, please liaise with the recruiting manager for further details. Are you ready for a fresh challenge? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join us in the Hull Community Mental Health service. Join our dynamic Hull Community Mental Health team as an Occupational Therapist and help shape meaningful change. We welcome experienced Band 6 OTs or motivated Band 5s ready to progress. Enjoy excellent benefits, generous annual leave, and flexible working to support a healthy work-life balance. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of Humber wide Occupational Therapy staff group and the wider AHP network. All Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Occupational Therapists are part of the wider Professional Network and access regular Community Services Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Group meetings. Training/personal and professional development is encouraged.

Main duties of the job:

• To support people who have experienced mental ill health and provide specialist treatment and care.
• To delegate intervention to the appropriate staff members to enable evidence-based patient care, promote wellbeing and autonomy to manage their needs.
• Provide occupational therapy advice to other disciplines and provide training and competency support to the wider team.
• To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice for a specialist caseload in a variety of settings.
• To follow the Occupational Therapy process/pathway with patients within standard operating procedures and contribute to care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support, training, and advice regarding the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.

About us:

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Job responsibilities:

Please see job description and person Spec attached in the documentation section, for further information regarding role requirements.

Person Specification:

Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Registration with the HCPC
• A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical practice and service
• Knowledge and understanding of the evidence-based relevant to the clinical area
• Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level e.g. degree or post graduate level or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning

Experience:

• Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in the relevant service area
• Understanding of caseload management clinical responsibilities
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area
• Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development

Skills and Competencies:

• Aware of leadership/management skills and qualities

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.