Occupational Therapist

Do you want to be part of an innovative and collaborative Team? The Acute & Urgent Care Directorate are looking for applicants for the Occupational Therapist post. This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and drive some exciting developments within a complex and fast-paced environment. You will be supported by the wider Leadership Team to ensure we continue to maintain high quality, patient focused services in line with our national and locally agreed targets.

You will work with individuals to promote independence, maximise functional ability, and support safe discharge planning across Acute settings.

This post is 22.5 hours per week and is a 12-month fixed term contract ending on 05/06/2027., The post holder will provide a clinical and professional service as a member of a Multi-Disciplinary Team [MDT]. Be operationally responsible as a clinician for their own caseload and the supervision of staff as required. This post includes highly skilled clinical work and requires the post holder to adapt to unpredictable changes and demands on the service as well as promoting the implementation of evidence based/person centered practice and to take responsibility for own Continuous Professional Development. You will be expected to uphold professional standards, to ensure high standard and quality clinical care and to promote the involvement of patients and carers in mental health service provision.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.