Occupational Therapist – Adult Mental Health
Job Description
Global Healthcare Jobs, 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: Stevenage
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
- To plan and deliver treatment interventions in line with Best Practice and local and National Guidelines.
- To plan and deliver Family Interventions for psychosis (FIp), in line with best practice.
- To plan and deliver Family & Friends Education & Support Group, in line with best practice
- To undertake comprehensive assessments and reviews, ensuring people meet eligibility criteria using social outcome assessment, and are assessed using the self-directed support Needs Outcome Assessment (NOA) process.
- To undertake such reviews as part of an integrated assessment of people’s health and social care needs.
- To offer direct support and advice to service users and their carers, through information and advice and ensure that those who do not meet social outcome assessment criteria are appropriately signposted and supported.
- To ensure appropriate health and social care services are commissioned with and on behalf of service users, including the duty to offer direct payment, and that processes are in place for service users to be charged by the local Job Description FEP CC May 2016 authority for all social careservices.
- To liaise and negotiate with other agencies e.g. Adult Care Services, Children Schools and Families, Benefit Agency, Housing Authorities and providers etc., for joint planning with, or on behalf of, service users.
- To undertake post qualifying and other appropriate training to ensure high standards of practice and continuation of own professional registration.
- To participate in regular supervision.
- To adhere to Trust policies andprocedures.
- To carry out any other duties identified by your line manager.
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.
