Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Community MH Practitioner
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Job overview
Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust (LYPFT) in partnership with Primary Care Mental Health and Voluntary Community Sector organisations across Leeds are delivering Community Mental Health Transformation. This is a new advanced model of care which focuses on a person’s needs and their community assets.
In this exciting role, the post holder will work as a Senior Occupational Therapist and Community Mental Health practitioner within a specified locality of this Community Mental Health service. This role involves providing Occupational Therapy specific skills and expertise, alongside competencies required as a band 6 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner within the service.Profession-specific clinical practice will be supported, alongside responsibilities for promoting recovery, clinical improvements and risk management for an identified caseload of individuals within the service. As a senior Occupational Therapist within the service locality, the post holder will provide leadership and professional expertise to junior Occupational Therapy staff, and the wider clinical team.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will support the day-to-day provision of high-quality mental health care within the specific locality of the CMHT. They will provide direct supervision and leadership for the Band 5 Occupational Therapy staff within the team, and also support colleagues within the partnership through providing recommendations and guidance to support occupationally-informed care plans.This role involves both integrated working, within a wider mental health service, providing recovery-focused and person centred care plans, interventions and management of risks, and also Occupational Therapy specific work.
This exciting role offers the post-holder the opportunity to further develop skills in leadership, service development and enhanced clinical practice, with support from the Professional Lead Occupational Therapist and the wider clinical leadership team.It is an excellent opportunity to work within an MDT where Occupational Therapy is valued and promoted. The transformation of community mental health services also requires the post holder to work within the integrated service, with partnership organisations, in the delivery of care and treatment to ensure mental health care is provided in the right place, at the right time, to meet individual needs.
This role supports the balance of core and specialist mental health skills, such as the duty and triage responsibilities, MDT formulation and 1:1 assessment and intervention, alongside specialist Occupational Therapy provision.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To work closely with the Professional Lead Occupational Therapist for service, to provide leadership and oversight for Occupational Therapy provision within the locality specific (West/East/South* one of these) community mental health service.
- To work closely with the Professional Lead Occupational Therapist for service, to ensure a fair and equitable Occupational Therapy offer for individuals who access the service.
- To provide specialist, evidence-based Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions and recommendations, to meet the needs of identified individuals within the Community Mental Health Service.
- To work closely with the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) in overseeing efficiency and effectiveness of treatment given and support the CTM in carrying out their duties.
- To actively support duty and triage activities within the service locality functions, including acting as the lead duty clinician on a regular rotational basis and offering guidance and advice to junior staff through triage and duty activities.
- To support the locality leadership in the chairing and co-chairing of meetings, taking on champion/lead roles for clinical responsibilities (such as Triangle of Care)
- To support the locality leadership team in incident reporting, completing investigations, implementing action plans and debriefs.
- To act as a lead practitioner and key worker to ensure that all care delivery (whether a mental health focus or an Occupationally specific focus) is of the highest quality.
- To work within the skilled and diverse community mental health service, alongside primary care and voluntary sector colleagues, to ensure that individuals experiencing significant Occupational Deprivation and Occupational dysfunction have opportunity to access evidence-based, planned assessment and treatment.
- To actively participate in MDT activities, and take a lead in identifying potential Occupational needs of clients within the wider team caseload
- To be a positive advocate for the role of Occupational Therapy within Community mental health services, within a recovery-focussed, MDT approach.
- To provide expert guidance, recommendations and advice to colleagues within the Community Mental Health service, to support formulations of individual’s needs and provide occupationally-informed mental health care.
- To support the leadership team (including Clinical Team Manager(s), Professional Lead Occupational Therapist and Community Practice Development team) in the development of staff, meeting of quality standards, implementation of policy, management of change and innovation.
- To formulate and deliver treatment packages utilising a wide range of therapeutic approaches and interventions, to meet functional, occupational & environmental needs in negotiation with the Service User and in liaison with relevant others within their care.
- To take responsibility for student education, and supervision and development of preceptees within the service, including offering high quality placements and educational opportunities, and complete relevant training to support this.
- Support recovery, social inclusion, maintenance or development of roles and responsibilities within the domains of self-care productivity or leisure; to promote and maximise the potential for independence.
- To work within the Occupational Therapy Process, utilising Occupational models to inform practice including the Model of Human Occupation and other specialist assessments.
- To actively support audits, evaluation and reviews to continuously develop and improve Occupational Therapy provision, and recovery throughout the mental health pathway.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues across services, from inpatient to community and third sector provision, meeting the needs of individuals and ensuring smooth transitions from acute to community care, to promote greatest access to Occupational Therapy and high-quality mental health care.
- To maintain Professional Occupational Therapy and AHP links. Attend and contribute to governance meetings and formal clinical review as required.
- To present as a positive and professional role model to all staff within the service, striving to maintain a philosophy of service user involvement in continuously improving the service.
- To work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day-to-day service provision.
- Senior clinicians work with a defined caseload of service users and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery. This will include the provision of highly skilled Occupational therapy assessment, intervention and recommendations, psychological interventions, groupwork, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
- Senior clinician posts within a community setting are required to: work autonomously, manage caseloads both practically, and on the clinical digital systems, undertake initial assessments and carry out home based treatment interventions.
- All practitioners are expected to consistently demonstrate the ‘Six C’s’ – namely care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment, as well as the Trusts values.
- To take responsibility for identifying and reducing health inequalities experienced by service users and carers.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- The post holder will be a registered Occupational Therapist
Skills
Essential criteria- Demonstrates excellent communication, leadership and supervisory skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of Occupational Therapy theory, models and practice
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of mental health interventions, trauma-informed and recovery-focused care
Values
Essential criteria- Values multi-disciplinary and partnership working within a community mental health care model and works as part of a team to ensure core team functions and safety are maintained.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Please note that from 1^st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.
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