Lead Occupational Therapist

Make A Difference Everyday

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Lead Occupational Therapist to join our team!

Waterloo Manor Hospital is a specialist hospital dedicated to supporting women with complex mental health needs, particularly personality disorders. Situated in serene, landscaped grounds on the outskirts of Garforth, Leeds, our facility blends exceptional clinical expertise with compassion, dignity and hope.

The team at provide compassionate, person-centred, and evidence-based care for individuals experiencing a wide range of mental health conditions including personality disorders, mental illness, and secondary conditions such as challenging behaviour, substance misuse, learning disabilities, disordered eating and dissociative identity disorder.

Key Results Areas

• Inform all Patients of their right to access their treatment plan, and to actively encourage them to read and evaluate their treatment plan.
• Demonstrate effective leadership, providing appropriate advice and guidance to members of the team.
• Undertake thorough assessments of care needs which lead to the development of detailed and relevant care plans, positively encourage patient involvement in all aspects of service delivery.
• On a planned basis, uses appropriate evaluation techniques to assess the effectiveness of packages of care, which have been offered.
• Ensure that the development and maintenance of an effective system for assessing, managing and minimising levels of clinical risk.
• To work as an integrated member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team, and facilitate effective team working in providing excellent care to Patients.
• To ensure the effective implementation of the care programme approach, ensuring relevant and up to date communication between all those involved in supporting individual Patients.
• To be involved in planning, providing, evaluating therapeutic groups and activity programmes as appropriate to the clinical setting.
• Ensure clinical and professional development needs are met by the PDP process.
• To take an active role in the development and implementation of audit and evidence based practice within a clinical setting.
• Take responsibility to maintain professional registration by meeting COT and HPC standards and support adherence to these within clinical settings.
• To ensure that treatment areas and equipment used for Occupational Therapy interventions are safely maintained and are in good order and condition.
• To work in an autonomous way with Occupational Therapy specific interventions based on clinical reasoning.
• To take the clinical lead for promoting occupation within the ward environment and support the team in enabling the environment to be occupationally focussed.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• HCPC Registration
• BHSC (OT) /Dip COT.
• Two years post graduate mental health work experience.
• To demonstrate and apply a highly skilled level of clinical and professional supervision. (Utilising a variety of techniques underpinned by a variety of models and experience).
• To have completed all education required of a Professional Lead OT.

Why Join Us?

• Access to mandatory training with opportunities for further professional development and career growth
• Auto enrolment Pension
• Career development opportunities
• Eligibility for blue light card