Job Description

The In-reach and home treatment occupational therapist is a core part of a busy Crisis team who aim to improve health and wellbeing through enabling participation in occupation (the activities, roles and routines of everyday life).



We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist with an interest in working with older people. The role offers the opportunity to work in a holistic way to support older people who are experiencing challenges with their mental health.



This role is based within a well-established, multi-disciplinary team. The Occupational Therapist is an essential member of the team. The role will involve managing Occupational Therapy referrals into the team, assessing the occupational needs of older adults with mental health conditions who live within their local community, co-designing and implementing person - centred occupation based interventions to support them to live their best life. This will include working with a variety of partners across the local community to ensure that we provide the right service at the right time by the right person.



You will receive regular clinical and professional supervision from one of the older adult community Occupational Therapy leads and support from the wider OT workforce and leadership team. There are many opportunities for participating in Occupational Therapy specific Continuing Professional Development activities within the trust and older peoples division.



As an Occupational Therapist in the team, you will support patients who would benefit from occupational therapy assessment and intervention.



This will include identifying those people who are both newly referred and already supported within the team who may benefit from Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention.



You will play a key role in delivering occupation based holistic, person-centred assessments and therapeutic interventions.



You will embrace the delivery of best practice guidelines for Mental Health and Occupational Therapy.



You will need to be a dynamic clinician with good interpersonal skills to enable engagement of service users and their families or carers.



You will be able to make complex decisions, formulate detailed assessments and person-centred support plans. Working as a Duty Worker is part of this role.



You will offer and support Occupational Therapy student placements.



You will offer supervision to junior staff including Occupational Therapists.



Participation in professional development activities is encouraged. Profession and older adult specific learning, supervision, wider support and training is provided.



Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.



CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible



27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service



Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training



Generous NHS pension scheme



Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits



Health service discounts and online benefits



Incremental pay progression



Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7



Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network



Health and wellbeing opportunities



Structured learning and development opportunities



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"As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa's and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) "