Occupational Therapy Lead Leeds, England
Job description
There is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist with a passion for complex rehabilitation to develop the occupational therapy offer across the Complex Rehabilitation Pathway.
This post has a pivotal role in providing an Occupational Therapy perspective to the clinical model, identifying development opportunities across the service, and ensuring that the occupational interventions are optimised for service users on caseload.
CREST is a part of the mental health complex rehabilitation pathway focused on providing different ways of working with individuals who have spent long periods of time in hospital. The service provides psychologically informed, flexible, individualised packages of care to build service user confidence to live a meaningful life in the community, as an alternative to a hospital complex rehabilitation placement. The service also facilitates system change by providing a consistent approach to community rehabilitation and safety planning that supports more hospital providers to make discharge decisions.
The role of the Lead Occupational Therapist will involve developing the Occupational Therapy offer and leading the team to establish new ways of working in the community for people with complex mental health and intensive rehabilitation needs. The job will focus developing the processes to support identifying, assessing, planning and carrying out interventions related to a service users rehabilitation needs. The successful applicant will also have an interest in service development and evaluation, and support with the team’s evaluation and research and training and development strategies.
This lead role will involve line management of the wider occupational therapy team and other junior members of the team to ensure that the occupational therapy offer is evidence based, person-centred and meets the occupational needs of the service user.
We are looking to expand our team with individuals who share our passion for promoting recovery and supporting transition from locked rehabilitation environments into less restrictive environments. CREST work using a team approach to deliver care interventions which have been identified through the assessment process which is supported by a diverse multi-disciplinary team which includes peer support, medics, addictions specialist, family engagement worker, psychologists, occupational therapists, and nurses.
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the [email protected]
You will be someone who can inspire and lead others, create hope and make positive connections to help people build a meaningful life in the community. You will make a real difference to people placed in complex (locked) rehabilitation hospitals by providing an alternative offer from the new regional community team. You will be at the forefront of developing an exciting new regional community rehabilitation service with contemporary Occupational Therapy interventions to help people get home.
This means that supporting discharge from hospital requires flexible and intensive transitional community support closer to home, in the least restrictive environment, providing consistent, recovery focussed and contemporary interventions and integrated pathways of care. Being multi-disciplinary and multi-agency in nature it will create psychologically informed flexible care packages to support discharge home.
The Complex Rehabilitation project is part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care System (WYICS) Programme for Mental Health and Learning Disability. Consultation with service users, carer’s, commissioners, and mental health providers has highlighted the service user experience and challenges for people placed within mental health complex (locked) rehabilitation placements from West Yorkshire. Many people have experienced long lengths of stay in locked hospital placements, are disconnected from a community. Service users have shared very powerful experiences with us, describing a community model as “not just about keeping me safe – it’s about building a life worth living”.
If working in an innovative recovery focused team is something that you like the sound of, and you’d like additional information then please do get in contact to find out more about the role and CREST.
Due to the nature of the service user group, there is a need for high levels of multi-agency working to ensure effective communication and maintaining high levels of care being delivered to service users on their recovery journey, and liaison with supported housing and other NHS and third sector organisations is something that the successful candidate will be required to undertake on a regular basis. The service is a regional service working across the West Yorkshire ICB.
We recognise the importance of ensuring that our services are reflective of the communities we serve and champion diversity and inclusion. As part of a wider strategy to improve healthcare career opportunities for all, we would particularly welcome applicants from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. We are committed to implementing the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standards and welcome staff members from all racial backgrounds who commit to these standards.
