Occupational Therapist

Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist looking for a new and exciting challenge with older adults? An opportunity has arisen for a senior Occupational Therapist to join our community/inpatients team based in Tameside working with older people with mental health issues. Our patients come to us from many different settings needing assessment and support to remain as independent as possible. Patients can have a variety of mental and physical health conditions. The Occupational Therapy role is crucial in ensuring patients health, wellbeing and independence are appropriately assessed and facilitated. A part of the role is to support with discharge planning, working closely with the discharge social workers, including assessments on the ward and in the home setting. You will have the opportunity to work alongside the wider MDT consisting of consultant psychiatrists, nurses, CPN’s, community support workers/HCA’s, physiotherapists, psychologists, OT students and apprentices. This post would suit an OT who has experience of working with older adults with complex needs in a mental health setting who can provide holistic assessments and interventions.
This is a full-time post 37.5 hrs.
The core purpose of this role is to to work across the older peoples’ community mental health service to embed the Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention pathway across the service within the framework of MOHO, in collaboration with the wider MDT staff.
The post holder will function as part of the MDT to deliver the Interventions required to support individuals through their recovery pathway and equip them with the skills and confidence to enable a safe discharge from the service and to support assessments and decision making by care managers.
The post holder will be highly skilled and competent in conducting OT assessments developing outcome based needs led care plans, facilitating the implementation of the agreed plan of care and evaluating its effectiveness utilising evidence based outcome measures
The post holder will provide a range of highly skilled interventions that will be delivered on both a group and individual basis and share those skills with other team members.
The OT will be responsible for developing treatment plans and intervention to be delivered by the team’s technical instructor.
This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process
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 #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.