Specialist occupational therapist

The post holder will be expected to work within the multidisciplinary Tameside adult learning disability team managing a defined caseload of service users providing core occupational therapyinterventions that enables individuals to work towards valued lifestyle and aim foroptimum level of functional ability including:Bringing a focus on meaningful occupation and its impact on behaviour and functionfor service users.Specialist advice to other team members and other agencies.To provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and appraisal and regularlysupervise occupational therapy students on practice placement.To contribute fully to the planning, development and evaluation of occupationaltherapy services within the Community Team initiating and leading defined projectsand participating in multidisciplinary working parties.To develop and deliver bespoke training and support packages to provider agency staff and others including families in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team., To undertake occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupationalperformance, strengths and skills deficits, enabling the service user in areas ofself-care, productivity and leisure.To collaboratively identify the goals of occupational therapy intervention with theservice user as part of the overall care plan.To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to meet the wide range of therapeuticneeds of our service users.To plan and implement individual and / or group evidence-based interventions, incollaboration with the service user, using graded activity to achieve therapeuticgoals.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel