Occupational Therapist – Mental Health Practitioner

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Hickling, Norfolk

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus – Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Occupational Therapist:

• Responsible for supporting referrals for the area you are assigned to, carrying-out comprehensive assessments and developing perinatal specialist mental health care plans.
• TMonitor and support women during the pregnancy or at post-natal stages, maintain strong links and communication with health providers such as Community Midwives, Specialist Midwives, Health Visitors and other professionals.
• Planning care programme approach (CPA) reviews.
• Required to attend and cover key functions in the team,- duty, team huddles, team meeting, buddy support/lone working. As a member of a large team, you will provide support to your colleagues with complex cases, escalating concerns to Safeguarding partners and ensuring that safety plans are in place for high-risk service users.
• Expected to keep up to date with specific specialist perinatal research.
• Undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Managing a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to people with mental health care need.
• To be responsible for accurate recording of mental health records of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
• To work within the multi-disciplinary team and to form working partnerships with other care providers. To ensure service users and / or carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the multi-disciplinary team.

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.