Occupational Therapist – Community Mental Health

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

Location: Rayleigh

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:

• Assess service users referred for therapeutic intervention.
• Utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.
• Make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.
• Undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with service users and their carers, taking into account appropriate safety planning.
• Communicate agreed treatment/care plans to the service user, multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.
• Work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower clients and facilitate optimal functional performance.
• Apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of service users in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention.
• Liaise with in-patient and community based services to ensure smooth transfer of care through the services.
• Make clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of client care to assistants, junior staff, students, carers and statutory or non-statutory bodies.
• Regularly review service users’ progress in order to evaluate and interpret effectiveness of treatment plans, and amend treatment or discharge service users accordingly.
• Ensure that treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.
• Develop and initiate interventions based on the integration of theoretical knowledge in order to meet unique client needs.
• Keep up to date clinical records in line with professional standards and local record keeping policies.
• Provide written and verbal reports as required at any stage in the treatment process in line with Occupational Therapy/Nursing/Trust Clinical Governance Standards

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.