Occupational Therapist

Job summary

34 Hours Per Week

We are looking to recruit a band 5 community occupational therapist to join our team. We are a specialist community perinatal team working with women experiencing severe mental health issues in the perinatal period. The team is made up of OTs, mental health practitioners, psychologists/psychotherapists, parent infant psychotherapists, nursery nurses, peer support workers and psychiatrists.

We are looking for a qualified Occupational Therapist with an interest in perinatal to join our occupational therapy team. You will work with women and their families in their own homes, and the community providing 1:1 intervention to promote occupation and functioning. The team have a range of therapeutic groups and you will also be involved in facilitating the running of these groups.

Experience with perinatal care will be an advantage but is not essential and we welcome occupational therapists who want to begin working in this specialty. You will receive supervision from our senior occupational therapist, and unique training opportunities in order to develop your professional identity in this field.

At the time of advertising, this role does not meet the minimum requirements (salary threshold or occupational requirements) set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. For this reason, unfortunately we are unable to sponsor anyone on a visa for this role at this moment in time

Main duties of the job

The service works closely with Maternity Services, Community Mental Health Teams, CAMHS, Home Treatment Teams, Primary Care Services and other community organisations, and the Yorkshire and Humber Mother-and-Baby-Unit.

We pride ourselves on offering flexible working patterns when this is needed, for example in order to facilitate caring responsibilities. The service operates Monday-Friday; 9am-5pm however successful applicants would be expected to have the flexibility to work occasional extended hours to facilitate service effectiveness.

Applicants must be caring and non-judgmental in order to engage mothers and their families at this extremely sensitive time. Applicants must have excellent clinical skills, confidence and enthusiasm for working with perinatal partner agencies in networks that extend beyond traditional specialist mental health boundaries.

The post advertised is to cover Kirklees and Calderdale. The post is agile and although there is plenty of trust buildings to work from, the team are also working from home regularly. Being a car driver is essential due to the distance required to travel when completing home-visits.

Please contact Ruby.WrightBeattie@swyt.nhs.uk or Claire.lowe@swyt.nhs.uk for any further information or enquiries.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

Job responsibilities

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.