Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Telford and Wrekin Community Mental Health Services for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist. This post includes a 12-month preceptorship programme designed to support your development into a Band 6 role.

As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for conducting occupational therapy assessments to identify care needs, contributing to the formulation of individualised care plans, and delivering evidence-based interventions aligned with the person’s goals. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide therapeutic input to support individuals in achieving their agreed outcomes.

You will also play an active role in coordinating and/or participating in the review of progress, using recognised outcome measures and ensuring the involvement of service users and their identified carers throughout the clinical pathway.

You will manage a developing caseload of increasing complexity, undertaking specialist assessments, care planning, and delivering non-pharmacological, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions. You will contribute to quality assurance through auditing and monitoring practices, while also completing risk assessments and promoting positive risk-taking to enhance independence and quality of life.

Main duties of the job

• You will take responsibility for the management of a caseload which will increase in complexity as you develop. This includes specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans (Eligible for care and Patient Knows Best).
• You will be responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• You will assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• You will deliver a range of non-pharmacological interventions following specific occupational therapy assessments to enable understanding of any expression of an unmet need and to maximise an individual’s abilities.
• You will complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence. 
• You will maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions.
• You will utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
• You will support in the provision of formal and informal training of pre/post registration students, staff members, carers and service users.