Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced Band 6 Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist to work based in Barnet.
The pay rate for this locum Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist job is £25 - £27 per hour (assignment rate) and is an ongoing contract.
Main Duties:
- Manage a client caseload and provide short term intervention to facilitate discharge, prevent admission and support independence in the community.
- Apply clinical knowledge and skills in both one-to-one and group interventions with clients with complex needs.
- Assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including risk assessment and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and also their carers, where appropriate.
- Use clinical reasoning to assess how the client’s mental health difficulties impact on their function in the occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure as well as their performance in the cognitive, inter/ intra-personal and physical areas.
- Assess client’s mental state and identify any significant risk factors pertaining to community integration and undertake risk assessments.
- Undertake assessment of daily living skills to ascertain level of functional ability, risk factors, level of support / accommodation needs to support the development of community care plans.
- Manage difficult clinical situations arising from working with clients with emotional and behavioural needs.
Requirements of the Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent within Occupational Therapy.
- HCPC registered as an Occupational Therapist.
- Minimum of two years post qualifying experience working as an Occupational Therapist.
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Daily payroll
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive occupational therapy knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each candidate you refer who we successfully place
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support
- In house payroll system
- Revalidation
- Industry-leading shift booking system
- Nationwide coverage including the Channel Islands
Contact:
This Band 6 Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Sebastian Dunbar; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
