NHS Perinatal Practitioner Occupational Therapist

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Perinatal Practitioner Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Waltham Forest

Contract Type: Ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)

Shift Pattern: Part time/full time

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:

• Manage a caseload of service users open to the perinatal service, offering a range of interventions, for a stated limited period
• Ensuring assessment, support/care-plans and intervention is shared and agreed with relevant individuals and agencies
• Plan care in association with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, involving involve service user, and where appropriate carers in the care planning and care delivery, having explained options and obtained consent to care and treatment
• Be responsible for organising and prioritising workload in the day to day allocation of work, responding to referrals as and when they present
• Be responsible for providing accurate records of information required for audit purposes
• Ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the register
• Ensure referrals to the team are processed and responded to accordingly, assessing and using professional judgement to assess level of need and urgency, as well as obtaining further information as required, determining appropriate intervention and proposed outcomes of intervention
• Work constructively with colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies
• Work collaboratively with multiagency colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies

Requirements of the Perinatal Practitioner Occupational Therapist:

• A qualified RMN, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to provide mental health interventions to pregnant women and/or their partners/significant others
• Recent NHS experience
• Relevant registration
• Have organisational knowledge relating to protocols and procedures and adhere to them
• Post qualification experience within a mental health setting and extensive experience of working in the community as a qualified Practitioner; and working with Safeguarding children cases
• Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable, and/or a keen interest in this specialist area

Contact:

This Perinatal Practitioner Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Reece Golding; 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.