Senior Occupational Therapist AMH

The Methodist Church in Britain; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Community Rehabilitation Team in North Lincolnshire. The post focuses on assessments, discharge planning, and risk management using MOHO within a multi-agency setting to support patients toward recovery and functional stability.

You will lead clinical interventions, supervise junior staff, and contribute to service development in a seven-day-a-week intensive community-based pathway.

Qualifications

• Senior-level post-registration experience in adult mental health.
• Supervisory responsibility for staff.
• CPD and experience of research and audit procedures.
• Extensive demonstrable clinical experience in individual and group work.

Responsibilities

• Work within an occupational therapy mental health pathway to support people towards recovery goals and functional stability.
• Carry out assessments and interventions using the OT process, from initial assessment through discharge planning and evaluation.
• Develop clinical formulations and apply clinical reasoning.
• Undertake risk assessments, document and report concerns, and act on them.
• Treat and monitor individual OT programmes, measure outcomes and discharge appropriately.
• Use MOHO as the core practice framework, including standardised assessments and patient-centred goal planning.
• Educate, guide and supervise patients individually or in groups.
• Educate carers on supporting and managing the patient's needs.
• Agree realistic, individualised therapy goals with patients, carers and colleagues.
• Take part in multidisciplinary case reviews to plan treatment and safe discharge.
• Refer to other agencies as appropriate.
• Communicate complex, sensitive and distressing information with patients, carers, staff and other agencies.

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Practice Placement Educator qualification

Willingness to undertake relevant post-graduate study

Job description

This Band 6 post sits within the Community Rehabilitation Team, a new mental health service run by RDaSH with North Lincolnshire Council to support people closer to home. The occupational therapist carries out assessments and interventions through an occupational therapy mental health pathway, using MOHO as the core framework, and covers risk assessment, goal planning and discharge. The service is intensive, multi-agency and runs seven days a week, with work across individual and group settings. Candidates need HCPC registration and access to a vehicle for transporting patients.

What the job involves

• Work within an occupational therapy mental health pathway to support people towards recovery goals and functional stability
• Carry out assessments and interventions using the OT process, from initial assessment through discharge planning and evaluation
• Develop clinical formulations and apply clinical reasoning
• Undertake risk assessments, document and report concerns, and act on them
• Treat and monitor individual OT programmes, measure outcomes and discharge appropriately
• Use MOHO as the core practice framework, including standardised assessments and patient-centred goal planning
• Educate, guide and supervise patients individually or in groups
• Educate carers on supporting and managing the patient's needs
• Agree realistic, individualised therapy goals with patients, carers and colleagues
• Take part in multidisciplinary case reviews to plan treatment and safe discharge
• Refer to other agencies as appropriate
• Communicate complex, sensitive and distressing information with patients, carers, staff and other agencies

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Practice Placement Educator qualification
• Willingness to undertake relevant post-graduate study

Registration & licences

• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council

Experience

• Senior-level post-registration experience in adult mental health services
• Supervisory responsibility for staff
• Documented CPD and experience of research and audit procedures
• Extensive demonstrable clinical experience in individual and group work

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent written and verbal communication, and ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information
• Specialist knowledge of OT assessments, interventions and outcome measures for the client group
• Detailed knowledge of mental health legislation and current practice
• Leadership, supervisory, appraisal, training and facilitation skills
• Ability to work autonomously, set priorities and build multidisciplinary and multi- agency working relationships
• Problem solving, computer literacy, critical self-reflection and analysis of professional and ethical issues

Checks & eligibility

• Access to a vehicle for transporting patients within the local community

Other

• Adherence to the RCOT Code of Conduct and Trust policies and procedures

Nice to have

• Experience of a range of mental health settings
• Membership of a professional body
• Membership of the RCOT Specialist Section