Band 6/ Band 5-6 Occupational Therapist development post

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

PACT are expanding countywide & seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to support their mission to enhance services & improve experience for people with personality difficulties.
An ideal role for an existing band 6, or band 5 wishing to develop to a band 6 Occupational Therapist role.
You will have a keen interest in working with those with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’ & wish to develop skills, knowledge & responsibilities. You will provide specific occupational therapy interventions, which also incorporate & contribute to aspects of psychological models & intervention.
For a band 5-6 development element; the appointee will commence on a Band 5 with support from a Senior OT & competency framework to develop specialist skills required to become a Band 6. Progress will require demonstrable evidence of key competencies, with the goal being compliance with development domains & functioning as a band 6 within 12- 24 months.
Evidence in the following domains will formulate the criteria for development from band 5 to 6:
Professional practice
Evidence based practice & research
Facilitated learning
Leadership
You’ll be a part of transforming delivery of mental health services & make a difference to people’s lives within a highly supportive MDT. This is a unique role where you will be given time, training and high levels of clinical supervision & reflective practice to deliver occupationally focused interventions to a small caseload.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of Occupational Therapy care plans and activities to support therapy plans to a small caseload of clients.
Triaging, assessing and intervening/contributing to the effective provision of Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of service users. Contributing significantly to safety planning.
The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Empower others to challenge the stigma around personality difficulties and ensure equal access to services that focus on empowering the individual to feel in control of their treatment and inspired to live a meaningful life.
The post holder will contribute to the delivery of specialist psychological therapies which form a part of the personality difficulties pathway. The successful candidate will be expected to undergo necessary training and to participate in SCM, design of service-user information materials, routine clinical audit and training at an introductory level.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
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To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

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