Senior Occupational Therapist | Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity for a full time Band 6 Occupational Therapist has arisen within the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in the Trafford directorate of Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH).

The post holder will deliver holistic occupational therapy assessments and interventions to service users being cared for on the PICU establishing levels of function, identifying and engagement in their roles and meeting their values, evaluating and reducing risk and facilitating occupational performance to support recovery and enable the individual to prepare for discharge from PICU/hospital. This may also include completion of occupational therapy assessments to support applications for housing or alternative hospital settings and to identify any longer term occupational therapy/rehab needs that would require support from other statutory NHS services.

The post holder will be an active member of the Trust Network for PICU pathways and will be involved in developing and implementing OT pathways.

Trafford PICU is a 6 bedded male PICU based on the Moorside Unit at Trafford general Hospital.

We are looking for a skilled and dynamic Occupational Therapist to join our fully integrated multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, committed and highly motivated team player with excellent communication skills, providing evidence based clinical assessments and recovery focused interventions.

• To provide functional and cognitive Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions to support the recovery of service users in the PICU.
• Deal with complex physical and mental health needs, using evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate and record all interventions in line with relevant clinical pathways.
• To work with service users and their carers/family members on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting.
• To provide professional advice for junior and support staff, as well as students on placement.
• To participate in the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the OT pathway within PICU.
• To regularly supervise Occupational Therapy students on placement.
• To abide by HCPC standards, the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Professional Standards for OT Practice.

• To provide functional and cognitive Occupational Therapy assessments to service users.
• To manage a caseload of clients with complex mental health and physical needs.
• To contribute to comprehensive risk assessments and risk management plans for clients at risk of vulnerability, self-harm or risk of physical, sexual or emotional harm to others.
• To work with clients to identify Occupational Therapy goals using specialist mental health and OT assessment tools.
• To assess the occupational performance needs of a defined client group, and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment programmes.
• To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions in collaboration with the client, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
• To ensure that Occupational Therapy input is clearly documented and evaluated in the individuals’ care plans and communicated with those involved in their care.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of ill health and apply this when making recommendations to address the clients physical, psychological and social needs.
• To assess for, provide, fit, demonstrate and risk assess aids to daily living within professional competencies.
• To respond to and take an active role with complex social and community care responsibilities.
• To respond to and manage clinical and social crises.
• To share knowledge and skills across the MDT and apply where appropriate.

• To promote a service philosophy based on a balanced model of care, recovery and personalisation.
• Establish quality standards relating to the service user and carer experience.
• Maintain quality assurance systems to monitor and audit these standards.
• To participate in complaint investigations, incident reviews and comprehensive Serious Untoward Incident Reviews…