Consultant Occupational Therapist | Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2025 |
| Location: | Scunthorpe, DN16 2JX |
| Company: | Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7188402/376-NLTT-0134 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join a new mental health community rehabilitation service for people living in North Lincolnshire and we are looking for enthusiastic and innovative professionals to help us embed this new 7-day service. The service will enable people to receive an intensive community rehabilitation service closer to home in their own community. We are transforming with the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) for Mental Health at the heart of our innovations.
The community rehabilitation service will consist of a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency workforce, working collaboratively between Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) and North Lincolnshire Council to share skills and specialisms to support individuals and improve their quality of life.
The team will be led by a team manager and has dedicated administrative support.
RDaSH is committed to the ongoing development of our colleagues and offers half a day each month CPD for everyone in the organisation through our 'half day learning' scheme. This role would be expected to deliver some half day learning sessions to support other colleagues in their understanding of this specialism.
This role is for a Consultant Occupational Therapist in the North Lincolnshire Mental Health Rehabilitation Team. This role will primarily be clinical working with a caseload of complex individuals and supervising other members of staff. The main roles of this job are:
• To improve the lives of people with a mental health need in North Lincolnshire by providing assessments and interventions which adhere to the multi professional consultant level practice capability and impact framework.
• The majority of time will be focussed clinically as per the expert practice pillar of the framework
• This role will be part of a 7 day service and as such will require the post holder to work some weekend days on a pre-agreed rota basis.
Expert Practice
• A significant proportion of time will be focussed clinically
• To clinically lead the Mental Health Rehabilitation service and be clinically responsible as appropriate for the service and pathway
• To work as an autonomous practitioner maintaining a defined caseload; holding a complex patient focused caseload, dependent upon appropriate areas of interest pertinent to service needs and priorities.
• To model/ lead on partnership working with other agencies as appropriate, including Social Services, User/carer representative groups and voluntary agencies at local, regional, and national levels.
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://workwithrdash.co.uk/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
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