We have an opportunity to recruit a part- time Band 5 OT on a fixed term maternity leave cover to join our passionate and supportive Team within Later Life Mental Health Directorate in Swindon. Our service provision covers organic and functional in-patient wards as well as Community Team and Memory Team. Your work will predominantly involve organic inpatient ward Community team. The opportunities to work within different settings will broaden your experience and add to your professional work satisfaction as we strive towards an effective continuity of care between the relevant services.
You will be working as part of the Multidisciplinary Team with other Allied Health Professionals, Nursing and Medical colleagues. This role enables development of holistic occupational therapy skills.
We are a supportive team and can offer regular supervision, preceptorship, exciting training opportunities and links to the wider therapy team in AWP. You will have support of Band 6 and Band 7 Occupational Therapists and work with Occupational Therapy Assistants.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job involve effective delivery of Occupational Therapy process of assessment, intervention and evaluation with reference to the relevant guidelines and legislations and with application to up to date and evidence based practice. The Model of Human Occupation Model is predominantly used in our service provision and you will be supported by the senior OTs to support your use and further development of your professional skills. You will be expected to be a reflective practitioner, committed to lifelong learning.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact:
Accountable for designated caseload, working within an evidenced based occupational therapy treatment plan and care programme approach under the guidance of the supervising occupational therapist.
Service users may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and have difficult family situations of relevance.
Undertakes occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits.
Assesses and manages risk effectively in clinical and community settings including the service users own home.
Works with service users and carers to identify Occupational Therapy goals as part of the overall Multidisciplinary Team plan.
Develops and implements individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user(s) and MDT to achieve therapeutic goals.
Uses technical and creative skills to engage service users in therapeutic activities and encourages them in a compassionate manner, to support them in achieving their identified goals.
Monitors and evaluates occupational therapy treatment in order to measure progress and modifies treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions.
Provides reports on service user progress at clinical meetings and participates in the clinical decision-making process regarding service user care programmes as part of the multidisciplinary team.
Provides advice, education and training to service users, carers and other healthcare staff involved in service users care.
Undertakes health promotion activities.
Assesses service users for and fits adapted equipment in the home, as appropriate.
Acts as lead professional for service users if no other professional is involved in the service users care and may undertake care co-ordination for service users on Care Programme.
Approach where there is an occupational therapy component identified.Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of service user harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the service user. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
Demonstrates safe moving and handling of service users, using equipment as required.
Demonstrates safe physical interventions in the management of violence and aggression as required.
Administrative Responsibilities:
Undertakes administrative tasks in relation to own work.
Uses Microsoft Office applications on a daily basis.
Responsibility for Information Systems.
Responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive service user records using RIO or other electronic systems approved by the Trust and in accordance with the Trust and professional record keeping standards.
Writes letters and reports on service users progress for distribution to other healthcare professionals.
Contributes to MDT reports.
Records information required for statistical purposes in an accurate and timely manner.
Person Specification
Essential and desirable
* Previous experience in relevant mental heath setting (placement, personal, employment)
* Understanding of Mental Health challenges
* Previous experience working with older adults
* Experience of using OT specific mental health assessments (VdT MoCA, ACLS6, MOHO)
* Experience of providing individual/group interventions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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