Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job summary

22.5 Hours Per Week

Are you passionate about providing high quality, therapeutic care to your patients, can lead by example, are able to prioritise, deliver great quality patient care and are a great communicator then we want to hear from you.

This is an exciting, opportunity for a skilled Occupational Therapist with experience working in a learning disability setting.The post will cover the Kirklees area of South West Yorkshire Foundation Partnership NHS Trust. We are based in Dewsbury and being a car driver is essential.

You would have a broad range of experience and ability to joint work as part of a multidisciplinary team, cope with a varied caseload and to think creatively on their feet. Learning disability experience is highly desirable but not essential.

You should have excellent communication skills to enable you to work in partnership with people with learning disabilities, their families and carers and to support them to live successfully in the community. You should be able to demonstrate high quality Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment for the individual.

As part of managing a diverse caseload, an interest in sensory processing disorder is important to help deliver high quality care and develop specialist SI pathway within the team.

The post will involve patient-facing visits in the community and responsibility for your own caseload of patients.

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

Main duties of the job

You will work alongside therapists, nurses, medics and admin staff and be responsible for triaging and prioritising OT referrals, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.

Support service user, family and carer and interpret the assessment results to plan and implement a client centred occupational therapy treatment programme on an individual and/or group basis using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.

You will provide specialist advice to occupational therapy and other professionals and some sensory experience is desirable

You will ensure therapeutic interventions are of a high professional standard, informed by evidence-based practice and involves the service user and carer in all aspects of the care programme.

You will be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges and participate in appropriate clinical team meetings, referral meetings, case conferences, care programme approach meetings and any other as required by clinical need and as directed.

You will receive and provide clinical supervision to other occupational therapy staff/ support staff and students. Also, you would participate in a team based duty rota dealing with new referrals.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

For any sponsorship enquiries, please contact the recruiting manager.

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.