Job responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications.

Experience

Essential

• oAppropriate demonstrable post-registration experience, including experience within mental health services or a relevant clinical area.
• oExperience of assessing occupational needs and delivering individual and group occupational therapy interventions.
• oExperience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team and liaising with partner agencies.
• oExperience of supervising or supporting junior staff, students or support staff.
• oDocumented evidence of continuing professional development.
• oExperience of contributing to audit, service evaluation or quality improvement activity.
• oExperience across a range of mental health settings or crisis/community services.

Qualifications

Essential

• Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Practice Placement Educator qualification or willingness to complete required training.
• Willingness to undertake post-registration or postgraduate learning relevant to the service area.

Desirable

• Experience of contributing to audit, service evaluation or quality improvement activity.
• Membership of RCOT Community Section

Knowledge

Essential

• Specialist knowledge and application of occupational therapy assessments and interventions relevant to the client group.
• Understanding of occupational therapy outcome measures and their use in practice
• Detailed knowledge of mental health legislation, care planning processes and current mental health practice.
• Knowledge of recovery-focused, trauma informed and person-centred approaches to care.
• Applied knowledge of risk assessment, risk management and safeguarding within community mental health practice.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and safe lone/community working practice
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to practice, audit and service evaluation.
• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues and apply professional standards to clinical decision-making.

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable clinical skills in individual and group occupational therapy assessment and intervention.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and respond efficiently to complex and rapidly changing information.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage own caseload and seek supervision appropriately.
• Ability to build effective multidisciplinary, interagency and community working relationships.
• Effective problem-solving and clinical reasoning skills
• Presentation, teaching, training and facilitation skills
• Computer literacy and ability to use electronic clinical record systems.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level.
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable

• Degree and/ or an appropriate professional qualification
• CIPD qualified or equivalent experience
• Programme and Project management qualification (e.g. Prince2 Practitioner; Agile Project Management Practitioner or APM qualification) or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing projects, including project planning, project control and project management.
• Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
• Experience of managing risks, identifying issues and reporting.
• Experience of working with a variety of stakeholders on complex projects

Knowledge

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge in Human Resource Management Working knowledge of NHS People policies and national agendas.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• Well-developed data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, with good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools.
• Advanced working knowledge and proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
• Able to deal with challenging people and to cope with confidential and sensitive information.
• Support decision making on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action.
• Clear communicator with excellent written and presentations skills.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Able to demonstrate and role model behaviours consistent with Trust Core Values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable post registration experience as a Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist working with people who have complex mental health needs.
• Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) working.
• Skills in coordinating and planning inter agency approaches in mental health care
• Demonstrable experience of assessing high levels of risk and formulation of robust risk management plans including the ability to make decisions to ensure the safety of individuals and carers.
• Experience of conducting comprehensive and holistic mental health assessments which attend to needs across biopsychosocial domains.
• Experience in safeguarding (both adult and children) and specialist risk assessment.
• Supervising students, and junior members of staff when required.
• Experience of delivery evidence-based treatments and interventions.
• Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a community setting.
• Previous experience of working in the environment where the post is held.
• Experience of working with statutory and non statutory agencies
• Involving service users and carers in care delivery
• Experience of working within a crisis service.
• Experience of acute inpatient experience.
• Working with service users and carers in service improvement
• Values based recruitmenT

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with current registration with relevant professional regulator.
• Evidence of Relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Practice Educator training / experience of supporting students.
• Risk Assessment and Management Training.

Desirable

• Suicide Prevention Training.
• Supervision Training.

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
• Skills in coordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
• An understanding of current mental health issues.
• Specialist Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, including; Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Care Act, Human Rights Act

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of the roles of other professionals working within mental health
• Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non-statutory
• Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
• Ability to assess and respond to individuals presenting with self-harming behaviours, implementing appropriate interventions including risk management, harm minimisation, and brief therapeutic strategies to ensure safety and promote recovery.
• Experience of working within trauma informed services

Skills

Essential

• Ability to work independently and exercise professional autonomy, while recognising risk and escalating concerns appropriately.
• Experience in developing and implementing Risk Management Plans in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies.
• Demonstrable skills in clinical risk assessment, contingency planning, and managing individuals in acute distress
• Competent in delivering brief psychological interventions, including crisis management and harm minimisation strategies.
• Knowledge and application of CBT-informed approaches in practice.
• Ability to manage high emotional distress and challenging behaviours, including verbal aggression.
• Experience supporting individuals with self harm behaviours, focusing on safety and recovery-oriented care.

Desirable

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a clear and concise command of English
• Strong report-writing ability, ensuring accurate and professional documentation.
• Highly skilled in engagement and relationship building, including working with carers, families, and support networks.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise workload dynamically in response to changing demands
• IT literate, with experience using Microsoft systems and willingness to learn new digital tools.
• Proactive, motivated, and conscientious approach to delivering high-quality care
• Effective contributor within a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
• Ability to support and contribute to the development of junior staff, including informal teaching and mentoring.
• Capable of delivering training and education to both qualified and unqualified staff.
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and challenges discriminatory behaviour constructively
• Recognises the importance of family/carer involvement in care planning and risk management.
• Willingness to engage in research, service development, and continuous improvement.
• Passionate about delivering person-centred, high-quality services
• Ability to undertake physical interventions, including moving & handling and management of violence/aggression (MVA).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).