Occupational Therapist / Community Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is looking for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist / Community Mental Health Practitioner to join their Specialist Community Forensic Team. This role involves managing service users' mental health needs and coordinating care with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will have a relevant occupational therapy qualification and strong engagement skills to foster meaningful recovery in a community setting. Benefits include the opportunity to work in a supportive environment dedicated to improving lives.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive specialist OT assessments & risk assessments are required.
• The ability to develop and deliver individualized health plans.
• Strong motivation to support transition needs of service users.

Responsibilities

• Lead professional in case management of service users.
• Conduct Occupational Therapy assessments.
• Collaborate with agencies to make clinical judgments.

Skills

Ability to work autonomously

Strong engagement skills

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Experience with complex presentations

Education

Occupational Therapist qualification

Job description

The Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated dual role Occupational Therapist / Community Mental Health Practitioner.

The SCFT is a multi-disciplinary team supporting transition, and continued rehabilitation for service users, out of secure care into the community. The team provides service users with care and treatment pathways which offer intervention and forensic risk management. This is a regional team and operates across West Yorkshire.

About the Service

Healthy social and occupational networks outside of secure care are an important function when managing risk in a community setting. The post holder will hold a small individual caseload, have the opportunity to complete identified Occupational therapy assessments to address the occupational deficits of service users and support the wider team in formulating care, to ensure our service users have opportunities for social networks and activity, and thrive in the community. The post holder will also take on role of care coordinator.

This role includes working shifts including long days and mid-shifts that cover a 7-day service within the hours of 08:00-20:00pm. Access to a vehicle is essential.

All-Age Forensic Community Service

The All-Age Forensic Community Service is a developing service line within the Forensic Care Group. It also includes:

• Forensic CAMHS (inclusive of Y&H FCAMHS, Focus Secure and Focus Wakefield).
• Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service for Learning Disability and/or Autism (FOLS LDA).
• Our adult forensic community service (Forensic Community Transition Team (Bretton Centre) and the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT)).

Role Purpose

The vision is to create a collaborative environment between our community forensic services and to develop and overarching clinical framework that will support the way in which a community forensic population is understood, supported and intervened upon, no matter what age. The purpose of the role is therefore to:

• Be the lead professional in the case management of service users.
• Undertake comprehensive specialist OT assessments & risk assessments.
• Develop and deliver on individualized Occupational Health plans of care to support the recovery journey.
• Be enthusiastic about this service user group and motivated to support change and transition needs of individuals.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with other agencies to make clinical judgements promoting joint decision making about care delivery to individuals with complex presentations.
• Be thoughtful and resilient in the way you engage with a multidisciplinary team.
• Have strong and effective engagement skills to service users, family, friends and carers.

About Our Trust

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.