Specialist Occupational Therapist

The successful candidate will manage a caseload of service users, with a range of diagnoses and needs. They will be responsible for arranging care, liaison with other services as well as providing specialist occupational therapy assessment, risk assessments, reviewing care plans and ensuring these are done collaboratively and in a recovery focused manner. The successful candidate will also be able to offer evidence based clinical decisions and treatment options and participate in the setting up and running of groups within the team.

They will be able to act as a senior member of the wider multidisciplinary team, offering support to junior colleagues and other disciplines within the team and will be confident in their decision making. They will act as clinical supervisor and appraiser for occupational therapy assistants (OTAs) within the service and providing oversight of occupational therapy interventions being delivered by OTAs.

The successful candidate will be able to support in the learning and development of students and take on the practice supervisor and assessor roles.

The successful candidate will act as the duty worker on a regular basis (weekly), having telephone contacts and face to face appointments where appropriate, with service users open to the core team west caseload. The successful candidate will need to be confident in risk assessment and management.

Hello! My name is Beth and Im the team manager for the Core Team West in Wakefield. We have a rare opportunity for a specialist occupational therapist to join our service in a part time (30 hours, 0.8wte) position, as a band 6 OT and work alongside our existing OTs within core team west, as well as the wider multidisciplinary team. As a core team, we work with individuals who have moderate to severe mental health needs in a community setting, helping our service users to reach their potential and live well within the community.

As a team, we are friendly, open, and supportive of one another and we are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and friendly individual who shares the same values as the team, that being putting service users first and in the centre of their care.

Here's what staff say about the team:

Its good working with different disciplines and having learning opportunities from other professions.

The team are very supportive of each other, have a good sense of fun and are service user orientated.

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.