Mental Health Occupational Therapist
- NHS
- Part Time
- Nottingham
- Negotiable
Job Description
Job summary
ABOUT THE ROLE
PICS are pleased to be able to offer an additional Mental Health Occupational Therapist role in Byron PCN, South Nottinghamshire areas within Primary Care to the current thriving service. You will be joining an established team of Mental Health Occupational Therapists within PICS. We are dedicated about ensuring that our patients see the right person in the right place, first time and receive quality intervention.
You will be supported by a wider team of clinicians including Mental Health Practitioners and our Occupational Therapist Clinical Lead who is on the PICS Leadership Team. We currently have Mental Health OTs working in other PCNs and have had encouraging feedback from patients and clinicians with regards to the benefits of the service.
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
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The ability to take a lead role in completing autonomous advanced assessments, triage and treatment of acute and chronic presentations for patients with mental health concerns attending primary care.
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Provide an assessment appointment and a maximum of one follow up appointment and utilise local community, charity and secondary care services to provide ongoing support to patients. This will require building close working relationships with other services and being aware of the needs of the local community as well as available resources and services.
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To help patients identify their needs and make shared decisions about management using current evidenced based practice.
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Be able to feedback concisely to GP colleagues with your findings, recommendations and requests for treatment such as medication.
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Have a knowledge of medication to facilitate informed discussions with patients. You will be expected to make suggestions around medication choice following discussion with patients and communicate this with GP colleagues.
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Support Primary Care colleagues development in the best treatment and onward management strategies by attending meetings, delivering educational sessions and supporting PCN Practitioners.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
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HCPC registered
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Occupational Therapy Qualification and Registration or equivalent.
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Experience working in Adult Mental Health and desirable to have experience working in an FCP role
About us
PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS
We offer a comprehensive package which includes:
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NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
- Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
- A flexible approach to a work-life balance
- Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme
- All staff events and conferences
- Staff engagement (Wellbeing Group, EDI Network, Staff Focus group)
- Free parking across many sites
- Personalised induction into the company and job role
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Professional Leadership and Development
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To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.
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To adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice at all times.
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To reflect on own practice individually and/or through regular clinical supervision.
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Provide clinical education, training, and evaluation of clinical competence of team and multidisciplinary team staff, providing support and guidance.
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To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.
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To critically evaluate own work using evidence-based projects, audits, and outcome measures.
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To work autonomously as an Occupational Therapist within professional and PICS guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Communication and Relationships
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Demonstrate advanced communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation, and counselling.
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Be able to provide concise summary of appointments, raise any concerns to appropriate professionals, communicate treatment plan and request additional support or requirements from GP or other Healthcare Professional.
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Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals including de-escalation skills when working in highly antagonistic, hostile, and emotive clinical areas.
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Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.
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Demonstrate the ability to recognise barriers to understanding that can be encountered with those without English as their first language, patients with disabilities and those with mental health difficulties such as anxiety, clinical depression, or personality disorders.
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Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.
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The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.
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Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in relation to patient care and will have the ability to advise and support others to communicate information in an understandable, empathic, and reassuring way to adults with Mental Health and/or Learning Disabilities and/or Cognitive difficulties and their family and carers.
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Utilise communications in accordance with Caldicott Principles, Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act and Trust Policies and procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
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Occupational Therapy qualification HCPC registered occupational therapist.
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Post graduate degree or equivalent qualification or experience.
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Highly developed specialist knowledge of meeting the health needs of Adults with Mental Health underpinned by theory and experience.
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A teaching qualification (e.g., ENB 998/P126/127) or a proven track record in occupational therapy education is desirable but not essential.
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In depth knowledge of National and HCPC policies, procedures, code of conduct and standards of care in relation to service provision for adults with mental health.
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Post qualification experience of working collaboratively with statutory partners, third sector partners and families/carers.
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Knowledge of safeguarding adult and childrens procedures and the ability to take on a lead role in strategy meetings as and when required.
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Developed skills from a wide and variant background, experience and a broad yet deep knowledge base underpinned with a proven track record and/or an academically scrutinised knowledge base.
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Proven professional development, a profile that demonstrates, advanced clinical occupational therapy practice.
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Systematic understanding of how to manage a designated, complex, occupational therapy caseload (relative to primary care) using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing occupational therapy interventions, ...
