Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

To work as a specialist clinician to utilise, develop and enhance Occupational Therapy clinical and professional skills within the Service to deliver high standards of practice. To apply the Occupational Therapy process within a Multi-Disciplinary format providing specialist assessment and treatment in clinical care pathways. To take a lead in developing the Service. This involves promoting high quality clinical practice and ensuring professional standards are maintained in the workplace. To deliver a specialist Occupational Therapy Service to patients within a variety of settings, requiring flexibility/adaptability in recognising the complexity of these environments to maximise their abilities and opportunities for occupational wellbeing

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the Trusts values in everything you do in the work environment and live up the LPT Pledge, being responsible in the use and expenditure of the Trusts resources that you utilise Page 2 of 14 3. Delivery of Effective Healthcare within the organisation

To be responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of the Occupational Therapy (OT) process (info gathering, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, evaluation and discharge planning) as appropriate to patient needs. To assist team/clinical/operational leaders in the organisation and co-ordination of the service provided.

The post holder will manage own time constructively and prioritise clinical workload working with patients on a 1:1 basis or in a group. To work in partnership with team leads, managers and other practitioners in the effective management of referrals, case prioritisation and care co-ordination within clinical care pathways. To work effectively with members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and other related agencies to ensure a needs-led service is maintained.

We have a number of vacancies within the Occupational Therapy team, created as part of the successful growth and development of the Occupational Therapy service. The successful candidates will be managed and supervised by senior Occupational Therapists.

About Us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.