Community Occupational Therapist - Older Peoples Service

Derbyshirehealthcareft; Ashbourne CP; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Community Occupational Therapist for their Older People's Service. This role involves supporting older adults with mental health challenges through holistic occupational therapy interventions. The position offers flexible working, professional development, and a supportive team environment. Join a compassionate workforce dedicated to making a positive difference in people's lives.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Incremental pay progression

Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits

Health service discounts

Free confidential employee assistance programme

Access to LGBT+ and BAME networks

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Therapist with post-graduate training.
• Membership of OT professional body required.

Responsibilities

• Support patients with occupational therapy assessment and intervention.
• Deliver holistic, person-centred assessments and interventions.
• Supervise junior staff and offer student placements.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Dynamic Clinician

Complex Decision Making

Education

Qualified Occupational Therapist

Student Mentorship Qualification

Tools

OT Assessments

Job description

Community Occupational Therapist - Older Peoples Service

Are you looking for a change of direction? More experience in community care? Passionate about supporting older people?

If so, we would really like to hear from you!

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist with an interest in working with older people. The role offers the opportunity to work in a holistic way to support older people who are experiencing challenges with their mental health.

This role is based within a well-established, multi-disciplinary team in South Dales area. The Occupational Therapist is an essential member of the team. The role will involve managing Occupational Therapy referrals into the team, assessing the occupational needs of older adults with mental health conditions who live within their local community, co-designing and implementing person - centred occupation based interventions to support them to live their best life. This will include working with a variety of partners across the local community to ensure that we provide the right service at the right time by the right person.

You will receive regular clinical and professional supervision from one of the older adult community Occupational Therapy leads and support from the wider OT workforce and leadership team. There are many opportunities for participating in Occupational Therapy specific Continuing Professional Development activities within the trust and older peoples division.

Main duties of the job

As an Occupational Therapist in the team, you will support patients who would benefit from occupational therapy assessment and intervention.

This will include identifying those people who are both newly referred and already supported within the team who may benefit from Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention.

You will play a key role in delivering occupation based holistic, person-centred assessments and therapeutic interventions.

You will embrace the delivery of best practice guidelines for Mental Health and Occupational Therapy.

You will need to be a dynamic clinician with good interpersonal skills to enable engagement of service users and their families or carers.

You will be able to make complex decisions, formulate detailed assessments and person-centred support plans. Working as a Duty Worker is part of this role.

You will offer and support Occupational Therapy student placements.

You will offer supervision to junior staff including Occupational Therapists.

Participation in professional development activities is encouraged. Profession and older adult specific learning, supervision, wider support and training is provided.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Experience

• Registered Occupational Therapist
• Post-graduate training relevant to specialist area
• Membership of OT professional body and / or special interest group

Qualifications

• Qualified Occupational Therapist
• Current registration with the relevant professional body, eg NMC, HCPC, Social Work England
• Student Mentorship qualification or willing to undertake this

Other

• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post/access to vehicle / drive due to geographical area.
• Has own transport
• Good time keeping
• Knowledge of OT assessments/ tools within Mental Health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

South and Dales Older Adult CMHT. St Oswalds Hospital

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

383-OPC-5605-25-A

Job locations

South and Dales Older Adult CMHT. St Oswalds Hospital