Senior Occupational Therapist

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

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

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Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Senior Occupational Therapist/ Community Mental Health Practitioner will support the day-to-day provision of high-quality mental health care within the specific locality of the Community Mental Health Service. 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.