Occupational Therapist Band 6

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Do you want to work with older adults with dementia, mental health and physical health needs in a multidisciplinary inpatient setting whilst promoting evidence-based practice?

Are you an autonomous Occupational Therapist who can provide Occupational Therapy specific assessment, treatment/interventions and contribute to planning and evaluating services? Then this is the job for you.

• To work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team to assess and treat older people with dementia and mental health support needs, enabling future accommodation/care to be identified in line with individual preference and best interest.
• To be responsible for their own caseload on Sally Sherman ward, providing Occupational Therapy specific assessment, treatment/interventions via a range of individual and/or group treatments.
• To provide Occupational Therapy input for a small caseload of older people with dementia and mental health support needs on Fothergill Step Down ward and feedback to the MDT Team as appropriate.
• To develop and maintain links with Community services and relevant statutory and non-statutory agencies.
• To provide clinical supervision and support practice education when required.
• To contribute to the planning and evaluation of the services.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

• To manage a client caseload, liaising with the multi-disciplinary team to provide Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment within the units.
• To assess client’s mental state, identify any significant risk factors pertaining to home/community integration, and undertake risk assessments, liaising with relevant dementia care/community team.

To promote and apply evidenced based practice to service delivery.For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

For contact information please see below.