Mental Health Practitioner/Occupational Therapist Profession

NHS; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Mental Health Practitioner/Occupational Therapist Profession

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

The SCFT is a multi-disciplinary team supporting transition and continued rehabilitation for service users, out of secure care into the community. The team provides service users with care and treatment pathways which offer intervention and forensic risk management. This is a regional team and operates across West Yorkshire.

Healthy social and occupational networks outside of secure care are an important function when managing risk in a community setting. The post holder will hold a small individual caseload, have the opportunity to complete identified Occupational therapy assessments to address the occupational deficits of service users and support the wider team in formulating care, to ensure our service users have opportunities for social networks and activity, and thrive in the community. The post holder will also take on the role of care coordinator.

This role includes working shifts including long days and mid-shifts that cover a 7-day service within the hours of 08:00-20:00pm. Access to a vehicle is essential.

Main duties of the job

The All-Age Forensic Community Service is a developing service line within the Forensic Care Group. It also includes:

• Forensic CAMHS (inclusive of Y&H FCAMHS, Focus Secure and Focus Wakefield)
• Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service for Learning Disability and/or Autism (FOLS LDA)
• Our adult forensic community service (Forensic Community Transition Team (Bretton Centre) and the Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT))

The vision is to create a collaborative environment between our community forensic services and to develop an overarching clinical framework that will support the way in which a community forensic population is understood, supported and intervened upon, no matter what age. The purpose of the role is therefore to:

• Be the lead professional in the case management of service users.
• Undertake comprehensive assessments & risk assessments.
• Be enthusiastic about this service user group and motivated to support change and transition needs of individuals.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with other agencies to make clinical judgements promoting joint decision making about care delivery to individuals with complex presentations.
• Be thoughtful and resilient in the way you engage with a multidisciplinary team.
• Have strong and effective engagement skills to service users, family, friends and carers.

About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role including job description and person specification please see the supporting documents attached.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RMN Current NMC registration.
• Social Worker/Occupational Therapist-current HCPC registration.
• Experience of mentoring/supporting learners or ability to demonstrate the skills required for effective mentoring.
• Practice Education/Practice Assessor Preparation Certificate.
• Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy.
• Health Care Professions Council registration.
• Leadership / first line management certificate.

Training

• Assessment and care planning skills.
• Risk assessment and risk management.
• Relevant post-registration qualifications and/or training.
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Practice Education/Practice Assessor Preparation Certificate (or to achieve within 12 months).
• To be willing to undertake post-graduate training to further skills, knowledge and expertise.
• Successful completion of venepuncture course and able to demonstrate competence.
• Training in relation to specialist forensic interventions, including HSB, Violence & Fire Setting.
• Experience of delivering training to others.
• Post-graduate training relevant to mental health such as psychosocial interventions, cognitive behavioural/counselling skills/standardised assessment.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Special Knowledge/Skills

• Working knowledge of recent government legislation e.g. Mental Health Act, Health & Safety, Care Programme Approach.
• Able to work incorporating principles of Clinical Governance.
• Proven skills in partnership working with people who use services and their carers.
• Shows awareness of equality and diversity and is able to incorporate this into care planning and the delivery of care.
• Knowledge of using IT systems to record clinical activity.
• Knowledge of audit processes.
• Analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of carer services/issues.
• Specialist knowledge and application of Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions relevant to mental health.
• Extensive clinical practice skills including individual and group work.
• Understanding of occupational therapy outcome measures.
• Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities.
• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues.
• Supervisory/appraisal skills.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
• Ability to build effective working relationships.
• Detailed knowledge of mental health/learning disabilities legislation and current practice including policy drivers.
• Detailed knowledge of clinical governance and its application.
• Proven activity in audit.
• Knowledge and skills in specialist areas such as dual diagnosis, perinatal mental health, working with people experiencing psychosis, working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

Experience

• Can demonstrate skills in assessing and managing people experiencing complex mental health problems.
• Experience of supporting and supervising colleagues/students/trainees.
• Experience of using IT systems to support, record and monitor clinical activity.
• Can demonstrate skills in assessing and managing risk in a variety of settings.
• Proven ability in assessing the needs and strengths of people and their carers.
• Experience of delivering a range of therapeutic interventions.
• Working within an integrated multi-disciplinary environment and co-working with other teams and professions within team meetings, case conferences and professional meetings.
• Ability to support colleagues with day-to-day caseload management including prioritisation of responsibilities in times of high clinical demand.
• Ability to promote and develop links with other professionals for e.g practitioners within long-term conditions, primary care.
• Evidence of knowledge and application in practice of national guidance and standards, e.g. NICE, CQC, CQUINs.
• Experience of working holistically with older adults in a bio-psycho-social model of care with emphasis on physical ill health that impacts on mental wellbeing.
• Documented evidence of continuing professional development.
• Supervision of staff and/or students.
• Experience of working in an assertive/community treatment model.
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
• Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
• Experience of a range of mental health/learning disabilities settings.

Personal Attributes

• Time management.
• Self-direction.
• Reliability, enthusiasm, motivation, flexible resourcefulness, adaptable.
• A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
• Autonomy.
• Diplomacy.
• Values contribution of others.
• Ability to motivate self and others.
• Organisational skills.
• Effective communication skills, verbal and written.
• Willingness to work flexibly.

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.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust