Senior Occupational Therapist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; King's Lynn; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in King's Lynn is seeking a Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist. This role focuses on supporting children and young adults with mental health issues. You'll join a dedicated team, delivering tailored interventions and assessments in a hybrid working environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, experience in mental health, and a passion for supporting young people's wellbeing. A competitive salary and career growth opportunities are offered, alongside a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 33 days

NHS discounts

Comprehensive training programs

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children and young people, ideally within mental health.
• Ability to demonstrate effective risk assessment and management.
• Knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.

Responsibilities

• Conducting initial assessments for those between 11-25 years.
• Delivering evidence-based mental health interventions.
• Maintaining high standards of clinical record keeping.

Skills

Empathy

Communication Skills

Flexibility

Team Player

Education

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Job description

Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social Worker or Occupational Therapist Band 6

Hybrid working, and a warm welcome accompany this opportunity to work creatively with children and young people/adults across both the Community CAMHS and Youth Teams in Kings Lynn, West Norfolk. We are a multi-disciplinary team promoting positive Mental Health and providing treatment interventions for Children and Young people aged 0-25.

We strive to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated Mental Health Professionals, focussing on the needs of Young People providing a needs-led approach. We are seeking like-minded clinicians to work alongside us in supporting Young Peoples Wellbeing and Mental Health.

This a great opportunity to learn, grow and develop in a supportive environment within a fantastic team dedicated to offering great care. If this sounds like the role for you and you would like to come on this exciting journey with us, then please do not hesitate to apply

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have a strong desire to support children and young people to reach their goals and be able to demonstrate the following qualities required for the role which are: experience of working with children and young people (ideally within the mental health field), passion, resilience, empathy, great communication skills and an ability to be flexible and be able to manage risk as well as being a great team player.

The job can vary from day to day with no two days being the same. For us as a team to provide the best possible care, it requires us to work together as a unit, to support each other, and to help each other grow and learn. We offer hybrid working patterns where it meets the needs of the service users and enables the clinician to deliver effective interventions

It is a challenging role but one that can also bring so many rewards. There is no greater moment than when a young person turns their life around and thrives, knowing that you have played a part in facilitating that growth and change. It can often be a difficult path to get to that moment, and this is why the role requires great skills of communication, empathy, patience, strength, tenacity to name just a few.

About us

Within the Children and Young People services in West Norfolk, we pride ourselves on the care we deliver to both our service users/families/carers and each other. You will find a positive and supportive environment with a strong team ethic where creating a positive non-discriminatory and inclusive culture is of paramount importance. Our goals are to provide great care with great outcomes where we challenge ourselves to grow both individually as clinicians and collectively as a team, so that we can better meet the needs of the young people.

On a wider scale there are many other benefits to working for NSFT as an organisation, some of which are:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Job responsibilities

The mental health needs that we treat are wide and varied with each service user bringing their own unique life story with them. It is extremely important therefore that we treat everyone individually, offering a tailored approach to their needs with their voice and that of their families/carers at the centre of this patient focused approach.

Given the global pandemic the team has embraced new ways of working which has enabled us to innovate and looking ahead we anticipate further opportunities with the advent of AI to helps us streamline our processes and continue to provide excellent levels of care

Within our team we pride ourselves on looking after our staff and it is vital that we strike the right balance between working hard and achieving great results and establishing a good work life balance.

We have a great team, full of passionate individuals who love what they do and enjoy being part of a fantastic unit. If this resonates with you and feels like something you would like to be a part of then please do not hesitate to apply for this post and come and join us on our journey and make a difference in children and young peoples lives.

Duties will include, but not exclusive to are:

• Screening of new referrals in preparation for assessment
• Conducting Initial Assessments for those between the ages of 11-25 years
• Supporting and being part of the daily Duty rota system
• Individual Caseload holding and management delivering evidenced based mental health treatment interventions to children/ young people both on a one-to-one basis and in some group settings.
• Liaising with and where appropriate offering support and signposting to families/carers of our service users
• Interventions are predominantly delivered from our clinic base but can also be in the community or in some cases home visits which means the ability to travel independently and have access to a car is essential.
• We also deliver interventions via online methods where appropriate on platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
• Multi-agency working with partner organisations such as acute hospitals, primary care sector, children and adult social care, education and voluntary services et al
• Participating and actively contributing in team meetings and reflective practice sessions
• Maintaining a high standard of clinical record keeping making sure care plans and risks assessments and other essential data is always kept up to date
• Ensuring high levels of compliance in relation to statutory mandatory training and making sure that you receive monthly line management and clinical supervision as well as yearly appraisals.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

* Previous applicants need not apply *

Person Specification

Knowledge

• The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and collaboratively
• Up to date knowledge of legal and ethical frameworks including Mental Health Act

Skills

• Care planning and Risk assessment knowledge and skills
• Prevention and Management of Suicide training
• Safeguarding training

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Demonstrable experience in assessment of mental health
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience working in the specific area

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with the relevant Professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
• Recognised Leadership/Management training

Other

• Ability to travel independently

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yeargross per annum pro rata