Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

Specialist Community Occupational Therapist – Band 6

Are you an enthusiastic Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Occupational Therapist, looking to take the next steps in your career?

You need a high level of autonomy, working predominantly within patients’ own homes and community settings, as well as utilising phone and video appointments.

We offer a blended approach to working and you will be supported to work from home as well as at an office base, depending on team and patient need.

We are a committed and friendly OT team, providing specialist OT input within the CMHTs and working with neighbourhoods across LLR. Within our team, many CPD opportunities are available, with recent training in different occupation‑focused models and assessments such as Allen's Cognitive Disability Model and Sensory Integration, as well as other OT‑specific in‑service training and development.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long‑term goals and work to your strengths.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the Trust’s values in everything they do in the work environment and live up the LPT Pledge, being responsible in the use and expenditure of its resources, and be able to deliver effective healthcare within the organisation.

You must be able to establish therapeutic relationships with people to support their recovery journey through thorough assessment, collaborative goal setting, intervention planning and delivery.

You will delegate appropriate tasks and interventions to other members of the OT team, monitor their work and support them to enhance their skills, competencies, and confidence.

You will have strong engagement and motivational skills and be flexible in working with patients with severe and enduring complex mental health needs.

You will clinically supervise junior members of staff and you will also be provided with professional and management supervision.

For more information please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community.

We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual; this will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6‑month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.