Occupational Therapist – Community

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: Epping

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:

• Provide and oversee the management and care of service users
• Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation / records on all service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policy
• Oversee the conduct / contribute to the assessment process, as well as the observation and ongoing assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback
• Conduct risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service users environment
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business
• Report and document incidents as required
• Conduct and oversee physical health care checks and act upon the finding
• Act as a care coordinator / and or key worker
• Lead, facilitate and support group work such as relaxation, health promotion, hearing voices, anger management, psycho education etc.
• Responsible for administration of medications, assessment of side effects, review concordance and clinical effectiveness of medication regime in line with Trust policy including
• Safe transportation and storage of medicines, checking receipt, storage of medicines in medicine cupboard
• Provide education around the medication prescribed, side effects, actions and aids to compliance.Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness and training packages for staff
• Provide psycho-social intervention, education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness with aim to prevent relapse and admission and training packages for staff
• Provide practical support, guidance and education for service users, carers
• Undertake carers assessment in line with the Trust’s key performance indicators
• Undertake, supervise and sign-off nursing needs assessments and where necessary contribute to Self Directed Support assessments
• Be competent in use of relevant screening and assessment tools and supervise lower banded staff to undertake this function.
• Provide comprehensive assessment, care planning, treatment and review of care in line with the requirements of the Mental Health Care Clusters
• Provide formulation, delivery and review of individualised evidence based care / care packages according to NICE guidance including non-medication strategies
• Lead in the continuing development of a high quality service that is underpinned by evidence based practice, care pathways / packages and NICE and DH Guidance
• Identify, assess and manage clinical and non-clinical risks/hazards in your area through the completion of the relevant risk assessments
• Implement the risk treatment plans for inclusion in the local and Trust’s risk registers through the Risk Management department
• Participate in audit and research
• Undertake physical health checks of services users and act on the findings appropriately
• Understand the eligibility criteria and assessment process for Self-Directed Support (SDS) to meet service user needs
• Review SDS services in a robust and efficient manner, pro-actively promoting the approach of SDS
• Understand and utilise Health and Social Care commissioned services, demonstrating an empathetic approach of Fairer Access to Care Service.

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.