262300 Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Ballymena; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Scotland is advertising a Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band 6) post based in the Older People’s Community Mental Health Team in Edinburgh. The role involves working with older people with mental health needs or dementia, using core OT skills for assessment, intervention and rehabilitation in community settings.

The successful candidate will join a motivated team that places the person and their family at the centre of practice, with potential flexibly to job share or vary working

Qualifications

• Qualified Occupational Therapist registered and eligible to work in the UK.
• Experience delivering occupational therapy in older people's services is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments, plan interventions and rehabilitation to enable people to live at home.
• Collaborate with occupational therapy, nursing and medical teams to deliver care.
• Provide advice to support and empower natural support networks.

Skills

Occupational Therapy

Community OT

Job description

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Edinburgh Health + Social Care Partnership

Older People's Mental Health CMHT North

Specialist Occupational Therapist 1.0 WTE

We are delighted to be able to advertise this opportunity to recruit a experienced, Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band 6) and interest from people who would consider job share/flexible working are encouraged.

This permanent post has arisen due to an internal promotion and reconfiguring of staffing resources to reflect the expertise and contribution of OT in this rapidly developing clinical area. The successful candidate will work alongside OT, nursing and medical colleagues and the Occupational Therapy teams in the Older People's Community Mental Health Teams and across the range of EHSCP services.

The clinical skills needed for success could have been gained in a wide variety of settings and there is the scope to use a wide breadth of core OT skills for assessment, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation to maintain people living at home, offering advice and guidance to support and empower natural support networks. Expertise and understanding of the presentation of mental health conditions and co-morbidity in older people is essential.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the North Edinburgh Older People’s Community Mental Health Team as a Specialist Occupational Therapist (band 6) . We are a motivated and friendly team, who place the person and their family at the centre of our practice.

We welcome applications from Occupational Therapists who are passionate about working with older people, enthusiastic about their profession and motivated to develop themselves and our service. This is a great opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to develop their assessment and intervention skills, working in the community, with older people with a mental health problem or dementia.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

• We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.