Lead Occupational Therapist

Elysium Healthcare; Horley; Sur place; GBP 49 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual salary £54,315

33 days annual leave (incl. bank)”

Birthday leave option

CPD training access

Blue Light Card discounts

Onsite/local parking

Résumé du poste

Farmfield Hospital in Surrey is seeking a Lead Occupational Therapist to join our team. You will manage a complex caseload for adult men 18+ with forensic backgrounds and enduring mental health needs, delivering evidence-based and person-centered interventions to enhance self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.

You’ll lead a MDT, coordinate treatment plans, ensure accurate records, and support staff development while working within a network of healthcare professionals and accessing CPD

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered as an Occupational Therapist.
• At least 3 years post-qualifying experience.
• Experience in psychometrics and risk assessment tools.
• Ability to work therapeutically and develop insight in complex needs.
• Experience supervising junior staff.
• Full and clean UK driving licence.

Responsabilités

• Join a multidisciplinary team and encourage engagement in care pathway.
• Lead and coordinate implementation of individual OT treatment plans.
• Maintain accurate and timely patient records of rehabilitation/progress.
• Supervise junior staff and support clinical team training.
• Respond to referrals, assess patients, and plan/group interventions.
• Develop living skills, rehabilitation, and educational opportunities/therapies.

Connaissances

Registered OT

Description du poste

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to take the next step in you career and be part of meaningful change? If so, join the team at Farmfield Hospital as a Lead Occupational Therapist. You'll be joining a service for adult men 18+ who potentially have a forensic background and enduring mental health illnesses such as personality disorder, substance misuse issues and challenging behaviours. With experience from the NHS and/or private sector, you will be responsible for managing a complex caseload using evidence-based and people-focused principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual and group interventions which will support the service users to develop their skills in self maintenance, productivity and leisure. With a strong emphasis on teamwork, you'll receive support from a regional network of healthcare professionals and enjoy access to a variety of online and CPD training courses to support you reach your career goals.

What you’ll be

As a Lead Occupational Therapist, you will be:

• Participating fully with the multidisciplinary team and encourage the service users to be fully engaged in their care pathway
• Managing and co-ordinating the implementation of individual treatment plans for occupational therapy services ensuring treatments, activities and interventions are delivered through effective application and communication by the occupational therapists.
• Ensuring the team maintains accurate and timely records detailing each patient's rehabilitation / progress.
• Ensuring the effective and efficient management of more junior staff.
• Supporting clinical team working, including both direct interventions and the delivery of staff training programmes.
• Receiving and responding promptly to referrals, undertaking patient assessments to identify and prioritise patient needs before planning and delivering the appropriate and relevant interventions either on an individual or group basis.
• Working to develop living skills, rehabilitation, and educational opportunities/therapies.

What you'll need

• To be qualified and registered as an Occupational Therapist
• At least 3 years post qualifying experience.
• Experience in assessing people with a variety of psychometrics and risk assessment tools
• To be able to work therapeutically, engaging people in developing insight and coping skills to manage their complex needs
• Experience in supervising and managing junior members of the team
• A full and clean UK driving licence

Location

Farmfield Drive, Charlwood, Surrey, RH6 0BN

You will be working at Farmfield Hospital, situated located next to Gatwick.

The Provider Collaborative is led and commissioned (via delegated commissioning from Integrated Care Boards) by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The Provider Collaborative's combined resources improve care pathways for patients and give opportunities for pathway development, shared safety and quality improvement, service innovation, specialisation and for shared staff training and networking.

What You'll Get

• Annual base salary of £54,315
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
• Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future
• Free/subsidised meals and onsite/local free parking

About your next employer

Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

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