Senior Occupational Therapist

This exciting post is for a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to work in the Memory Assessment diagnostic Service (MAS) providing cognitive and functional assessment that will aid in the diagnostic pathway for individuals over 65 years of age referred to the service with a suspected Dementia. You will be a valued part of a Multidisciplinary team and contributing to the diagnostic assessment.

MAS is a city/county wide service, based at Lings Bar Hospital and operating Monday to Friday. The candidate will need to be able to work autonomously and with flexibility across Nottinghamshire, utilising trust bases as required.

This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.

As a senior member of the team you will be able to:

• To work as part of the Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) to triage and assess referrals to the service.
• Contribute to Point of contact role.
• To share information amongst the MDT and create appropriate and person-centred care plans.
• To complete functional/cognitive assessments of individuals with a cognitive impairment to aid the diagnosis of Dementia.
• To complete risk assessment and escalate/refer on when required.
• To be part of a weekly/Monthly MDT meetings and feedback your assessments as part of the diagnostic pathway.
• Liaise with Community teams to support referrals.
• To complete accurate records/reports.
  
  

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.

Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Colleen Walker Job title: Team Lead for Diagnostic Services Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07785 409400

Sarah Blair (Senior Occupational Therapist)- 07587726322