Occupational Therapist - Mental Health Practitioner

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 600+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Aylesbury

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Occupational Therapist:

• To be main point of contact within Gateway.
• To work as part of the Gateway team performing comprehensive triage functions in line with Trusted Assessor Model.
• To provide specialist advise to referrer.
• To liaise with service users waiting to establish current presentation, give advice and formulate management / safety plans whilst waiting for specialist team’s assessment/intervention. 
• To support the delivery of a high quality link worker provision into primary care, secondary mental health services, social care partners , community based resources and voluntary sector.This will include providing consultation and training to staff in a range of agencies in relation to the mental and emotional well-being of individuals experiencing severe / enduring mental health conditions.
  
• To support the Gateway/Team Operational Lead in the delivery of the service, ensuring it meets national guidance and local key performance indicators.
• To support the learning and development of new team members, students , Newly qualified,  junior staff members when required
• Maintaining accurate and timely records.
• Ensuring legal requirements and subsequent amendments underpinning Children and Adult care are adhered to.
• To provide best evidence practice to service users which complies with legislation, policies and protocol and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines.
• Ensuring that the local demographics are taken into consideration for service provision and improvement.

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.