CERT Lead Practitioner (OT)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area Mental Health, OT, Occupational Therapy, Community, RehabilitationGrade NHS AfC: Band 6Contract PermanentHours Full time - hours per week Job ref -SPE-3--A Site Kingsway House, DerbyTown DerbySalary £, - £, pa, pro rataSalary period YearlyClosing //5 :
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
Are you an experienced and creative OT who wants to have the opportunity to influence the development of a new service? Are you someone who is looking for a different way of working? Do you have a passion for working with people with complex mental health needs?
Derbyshire Healthcare is transforming its Mental Health Rehabilitation offer and developing its Community Rehabilitation Services. We are looking for practitioners who want to be part of the new service where occupational and psychological approaches are central to successfully working with people who have complex mental health needs.
You will have a passion for co-production and working collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprises in Derby and Derbyshire.
We want people to join our team whose clinical ability is underpinned by values-based practice and structured with evidence-based interventions. These exciting and innovative roles are an opportunity to work with service users using meaningful activities and to help people build their skills and well-being in a person-centred, recovery focused way.
You will work across the MDT and be involved with assessment, service development and providing clinical interventions specific to your professional speciality and past experience.
Main duties of the job
To work across the adult rehabilitation services, offering senior clinical leadership and having clinical responsibility across the service.
Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based programmes of care to the group of service users supported by the community rehabilitation service.
Use advance clinical skills and expert knowledge to assess mental health, social and occupational needs of the defined client group.
Work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) structure that ensures effective care planning and treatment. This will include care coordination and carrying out treatment activity with other professionals and external agencies.
Being responsible for the planning, allocation and delegation of duties and care priorities to the MDT.
Provide support, advice, education and information to services users and their relatives/ carers as needed. This will include involving service users and carers in the ongoing planning and delivery of care.
Work collaboratively across the MDT, reporting, and supporting the team caseload as required.
Develop and maintain effective partnerships with stakeholders, professionals, and agencies across the ICB footprint and beyond to ensure effective and safe care and discharge.
Working for our organisation
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and our friendly and supportive team to become part of a compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference’.
Derbyshire Healthcare’s CQC rating was ‘good’ overall with some outstanding services, and staff rated the Trust highly on health and wellbeing, morale, and immediate managers.
We have excellent opportunities to further develop specialist skills in rehabilitation and you will be part of the development and evaluation of this new and innovative service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the job description and person specification, please see the attached documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Current professional registration: Occupational Therapist
2. Evidence of relevant postgraduate registration training and development in cognitive/behavioural approaches, and psychosocial interventions to enable the management of a caseload of service users with complex needs.
Skills
Essential criteria
3. Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality service user centred care and patient education.
4. Demonstrates effective communication and interpersonal skills.
5. Ability to demonstrate leadership and work effectively with others.
6. Demonstrates planning and organisational skills.
7. Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility dependent upon work priorities.
8. Ability to motivate self and others.
9. Ability to assess and run group work where professionally relevant.
Experience
Essential criteria
10. Significant post registration/qualification experience of working with service users with complex mental health needs.
11. Significant experience of undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments.
12. Experience of co-production.
13. Experience of communicating and supporting carers.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. Ability to make judgements based on evidence-based practice and translate this for use in the clinical team environment.
15. To be able to demonstrate understanding of current developments in the NHS and their implications for leadership and quality care for clients/service users.
16. Ability to operate a computer to use standard MS Office programmes and Electronic Patient Record Systems.
Further details / informal visits contact
NameBryan PlimmerJob titleCERT Service ManagerEmail number
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Recruitment Team
Kingsway Hospital
Telephone option 1, option 1