Occupational Therapist

Job overview

At the Julian Hospital we have five older persons mental health inpatient wards, both organic and functional.  We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our AHP Team and support patients in their recovery from their acute distress.

We value the knowledge and expertise of OT colleagues in the assessment and treatment of patients with acute illness and recognise the pivotal role that they play in supporting safe discharges from our wards.

All the Occupational Therapists are assigned to one ward to be their primary place of work but here at the Julian we work as part of the wider Allied Health Professionals (AHP) team giving all the Therapists the unique opportunity to work across all the inpatient areas. To support this, we have implemented a rotation between organic wards and functional wards at the Julian hospital on a 6-9 month basis to allow for a holistic development of skills across both key areas. The team have a Clinical Team Lead who supports the team with operation management, professional development, service improvement and clinical leadership.

We have great links between AHP colleagues across professions and throughout the care group and we have an AHP lead who is available to provide leadership and support with AHP specific matters and encourage your involvement with AHP specific service development projects.

Main duties of the job

• To oversee and deliver high quality evidence-based practice and embed the Occupational Therapy process within the clinical area.
• Undertake occupation focused assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of interventions for service users.
• To support in the assessment and discharge planning of patients.  This includes equipment provision within the community setting.
• Contribute to and participate in multi-disciplinary team assessment and formulation. Providing specialist occupation-based advice and formulation.
• Be a practice educator for students.
• Participate/lead on developments within the service by using outcome measures and engaging in Quality Improvement projects (both locally and Trust wide).
• Provide supervision and leadership to our  junior therapy staff, identifying any learning and development needs in respect of their clinical skills base.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

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