Occupational Therapist

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking to work in an environment where the delivery of exceptional patient care and support is paramount? If so, we have the ideal OT role for you!
This is a rare opportunity in the Grantham CRHT (Crisis Resolution Home Treatment), for an occupational therapist. This is a new and ringfenced OT specific post, and an opportunity to be a pioneer in the development of the OT service in Grantham. It is based within the CRHT Service.
This is a community-based post, providing care to referred service users, based on their individually assessed needs, ensuring that agreed assessments, treatment interventions and referrals to other services, reflect the Trust’s policy to engage service users and their carers in all aspects of their care and treatment.
Applications are invited from highly motivated and dynamic candidates with a “can do” attitude to deliver the Trusts Vision and Values and help to improve our patient experience within Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
The post holder will be expected to be independently mobile to enable appropriate home and community assessments to be carried out (full driving license essential but own car is not required as the post holder will have access to pool cars).
This post offers regular Monday-Friday hours (typically 8.00am-4.00pm). Consideration will be given to flexible working hours.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence-based care to a defined group of service users and their carers, within the service catchment area, whilst under the guidance of the Lead Occupational Therapist. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
If successful you will be part of the well-established multi-disciplinary team and have opportunities to link with other OTs working within other Lincolnshire CRHT services, and will be provided with professional/clinical supervision.
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 .
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. This will include a balance of both generic and specific OT work.
This role will primarily work with working age adults however where team demands require support or a service user has specific need for OT the role may extend to work with adults over 65.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients’ mental health care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of occupational therapists in the team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage referrals and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
To communicate and liaise with others to ensure appropriate assessments, interventions and reviews are in place.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them and/or their care givers to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour to facilitate discharge.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk to facilitate discharge.
To assess carers’ and family’s needs and signpost or refer them to the relevant support.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills to facilitate discharge.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making within the CRHT.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to HCPC code of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines (for example N.I.C.E.)
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the CRHT Team Co-ordinator and/or Lead Occupational Therapist.
To act as senior professional within the CRHT Team.
Offer management and professional supervision Band 5 Occupational Therapist and other junior staff (as appropriate), working within the team.
Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff to create networks that improve the pathway of care as patients are discharged acute services

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