Job Overview
Are you passionate about supporting the Mental Health and wellbeing of young people and their families?
We are looking to recruit an passionate and innovative Occupational Therapist who and has previous experience of working or practice placements in mental health or young people and families. You will have excellent communication skills, strong engagement and motivational skills and be flexible in working with service users with complex mental health needs, their families and support systems.
This post is a 8 month secondment/fixed term post offering an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to work within the Crisis resolution and home treatment team. This post forms part of our Occupational Therapy Risk Pathway in CAMHS, which is made up of Occupational Therapists working in our inpatient and intensive community support team.
In the Crisis Team you will be working as part of a dynamic and supportive Multi-Disciplinary Team comprising of Nursing staff, Social Workers, Clinical Psychology, Consultant Psychiatry, and a Speciality Doctor. Within this role, you will work closely with young people and their families during periods of mental health crisis, providing timely and person-centred occupational therapy input to support stabilisation and recovery. Through the utilisation of occupational therapy assessments and interventions, you will help young people identify and build on their strengths, develop coping strategies, improve daily functioning, and re-engage with meaningful occupations that promote confidence, independence, and wellbeing.
This post provides an excellent opportunity to develop and consolidate your occupational therapy practice within an acute mental health setting, while contributing to innovative, holistic and occupation focused care for young people.
The post offers excellent opportunities for further development, clinical experience and learning. CAMHS runs internal CDP events and is committed to further development and opportunities for creativity and quality improvements in care delivery. Regular Occupational Therapy Clinical supervision is provided along with case /OT risk pathway review and reflection opportunities. We are also committed to supporting flexible working hours were possible.
Please note this role requires a UK driving licence and access to a car during working hours.
If you would like to find out more information please contact Clinical Lead Occupational Therapists Ellisa Fisher and Cara Maddison or Christine Asumang Crisis Team Lead.
Contact Details: Cara Maddison, Cara.maddison@nhs.net,07881261049, Ellisa Fisher, Ellisa.fisher@nhs.net and Christine Asumang, christine.asumang1@nhs.net
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
* To provide occupational assessment, intervention, and review for a caseload of young people while maintaining delivery of the highest standard of care consistently and safely.
* To ensure that case management utilises evidence based, client centred, recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention orientated principles and practice.
* To improve the day to day lives of young people and enable them to avoid future health inequities.
* To liaise with outpatient Occupational Therapists and other professionals where appropriate to facilitate discharge planning and further referrals.
* To offer professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
* To feed into wider CRHT (CRISIS Home Treatment) care planning and formulation.
* To work with and liaise with our other Occupational Therapist who support in delivering the Occupational Therapy Risk pathway, that covers across Crisis, Intensive community support team and inpatient unit.
For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.