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As a lead occupational therapist in TEWV you will provide clinical and professional leadership and management for occupational therapy in the designated service area. This will also include managing your own small highly complex occupational therapy caseload, assessing occupational performance and delivering specialist occupational intervention. You will ensure the professional standards of care are maintained in your own occupational therapy caseload and that of those you lead, demonstrating adherence to the Trust Values at all times, and operating as a leader in the team, service and organisation., To be responsible for the delivery of occupational therapy services across the designated service area.

An opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic full-time band 7 lead occupational therapist to lead the occupational therapy service in mental health services for older people (MHSOP). The post covers in-patient organic and functional wards, older people's crisis services, care homes liaison, and intensive community services, across Durham and the Tees Valley.

• To provide specialist advice to occupational therapy staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team and wider.
• To be responsible for receiving complex requests for occupational therapy, triaging and prioritising these, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.
• To use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
• To participate in and provide clinical/professional and management supervision.
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working.
• To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives.
• To use the Trust electronic patient record system.
• To abide by all Trust policies and procedures.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

The post is a full-time permanent post, and the work base could be at any of our MHSOP sites in the area of leadership.