Occupational Therapist – Care Coordinator

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: Brent, London

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £26 – £28 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 educate health professionals, other services eg ASC and voluntary sector regarding First Episode Psychosis and the role of an EIS including pre-referral advice and consultation to assist in the appropriate triage and allocation of referrals.
• Ensure, and clarify where necessary, the patient pathways through mental health services.
• Undertake initial assessments and reviews including the formulation of care plans to meet the identified needs of the patient.
• Undertake Risk Assessments and formulate risk management plans as per Trust policies.
• Regular attendance and participation at the clinical meetings that facilitate discussion of patient/client needs and ensure a shared approach to care, treatment and risk management where necessary.
• Plan and implement care as appropriate to the needs of the patient that is underpinned by best practice guidance and person centred principles.
• Review and evaluation of care plans and risk management plans on an ongoing basis
• Advice regarding medication management including promoting concordance and monitoring and advising regards effect and side effects in accordance with profession.
• Facilitate undertaking of physical and mental health reviews Provide information, advice and assessment to carers, as required.
• To work with primary care to ensure that referrals to secondary services are timely and appropriate and that more complex cases are referred on.
• Work as part of the mental health practitioner team at base, in clinic and in service users homes as appropriate.
• To develop and maintain access to community & voluntary agencies/services who can offer patients alternative avenues for support and therapeutic help.
• Ensure safe discharge process back to primary care when secondary services no longer required
• To promote appropriate service users involvement in all aspects of the delivery of the service.
• To participate in clinical and business meetings.
• To create and maintain systems for managing data including audit.
• Supervise junior colleagues and students.

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 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.