Occupational Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our team for a 12 month period. The South York and Selby Community Team is based within the Selby covering the Tadcaster, Sherburn-in-Elmet and Pocklington area. The multi-disciplinary team works with adults with mental health difficulties and their families to deliver mental health services. We are looking for an OT who can work flexibly to meet service need and has the vision, energy, and inspiration to develop creative, imaginative solutions to delivering occupational therapy with working age people and families. You will access support from the wider occupational therapy network in TEWV, and local adult mental health occupational therapy in North Yorkshire, York, and Selby to deliver a high quality, needs-led OT service. Utilising core occupational therapy skills to ensure all the people we work with have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.,

• To be responsible for receiving requests for occupational therapy, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.
• To use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
• To participate in clinical/professional and management supervision
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working
• To contribute to service improvement and quality initiatives
• To use the Trust electronic patient record system
• To abide by all Trust policies and procedures
• To be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges
  
  We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health. We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it. We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.