Senior Occupational Therapist

• Are you someone looking for a career in one of the UK's most respected mental health and learning disability trusts?
• Would you like to be part of a dedicated team committed to making a difference to peoples lives and enjoy a better future?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to join Coombehaven Ward at The Cedars.

Your clinical work will involve taking a lead on working with service users with severe/complex mental health needs, using occupationally focussed evidence based assessment and skills to provide therapeutic interventions. You will be supported by onsite an Occupational Therapy Team Manager and part of this role will be to support junior members of the team. There are plenty of opportunities for professional development, and quality improvement initiatives.

Devon Partnership NHS Trust is growing as we establish ourselves as one of the leading providers of mental health services in the country.

Working as part of Devon Partnership NHS Trust, you will make a difference to peoples lives from the moment you start.

• Assess and treat own specialist caseload of clients within identified settings
• Act as clinical OT within the inpatient services, ensuring effective planning and delivery of the service and manage a small team ensuring effective planning and delivery of the service
• To ensure supervision for all OT staff within the inpatient to ensure a high standard of client care.
• Contribute to the development of high quality occupational therapy services through the professional clinical governance frameworks including audit
• Provide professional advice and expertise to the urgent inpatient management team
• Report to the OT Manager on professional issues and Ward Manager on operational issues.

We provide mental health & learning disability services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

Our values

We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

Duties and Responsibilities

Communication and Working Relationships

• To develop and maintain effective communication structures to facilitate communication on professional and Trust issues within the adult urgent care, and inpatient care Network.
• To provide professional advice to the urgent inpatient management team, and community team leaders, ensuring professional representation in the local decision making process and an awareness of the contribution of OT in acute setting.
• To chair professional meetings as required.
• To receive, interpret and provide highly complex and sensitive information about and to:
• Patients and families / carers re‑assessment, care planning, treatment and review where there may be significant distress, resistance and / or communication barriers to engagement
• Multi‑disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent, well co‑ordinated care
• Primary care teams regarding client care
• External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g. voluntary and private sector, employment…