Senior Occupational Therapist

• Maintain a strong clinical presence by delivering individual interventions and overseeing the full range of therapeutic activities within the team.
• Demonstrate expertise in organic mental health care and share this knowledge effectively, promoting independence and person centred care.
• Proactively manage your own caseload, prioritising tasks efficiently to meet competing demands.
• Assess complex service user needs using professional judgement and evidence-based approaches, ensuring accountability for clinical decisions.
• Ensure every service user has a current, collaboratively developed Occupational Therapy plan tailored to their individual needs.
• Apply leadership principles adapting strategies to meet changing service requirements.
• Work closely with ward-based therapy team to ensure the delivery of high-quality, needs-led Occupational Therapy services.
• Contribute to clinical development through mentoring, coaching, and supporting student education and fieldwork placement

Essential

• Degree or diploma in OT
• Evidence of ongoing, CPD, Reflection, Team Leadership skills and Evidence based practice

Desirable

• Field work educators qualification

Essential

• Demonstrate 2 years post registration experience and expertise of mental health
• Evidence of specialised Occupational Therapy Assessments
• Analytical skills involving skilled interpretation, comparison and reasoned judgement in complex situations
• Supervision of Junior staff
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Evidence of risk assessment and management
• Evidence of application of theoretical models of practice.
• Evidence of working in an organic / dementia care setting and complex cases
• Evidence of group work experience

Desirable

• Demonstrate knowledge of research techniques and experience of clinical audit