Job overview

The post holder will work as a Senior Occupational Therapist within the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine, providing specialist assessment and tailored interventions to service users with complex and severe physical and mental health symptoms. They will promote functional and psychological independence through individual and group therapies, while offering expert clinical advice to colleagues and external partners. The role includes contributing to care planning, delivering high quality interventions, and supporting staff through supervision, appraisal, and role modelling best practice.

Main duties of the job

The role provides an excellent opportunity for the post holder to incorporate and utilise a wide range of their occupational therapy skills to promote improved function and independence. The post holder will provide clinical supervision, staff appraisals, and team coordination, while modelling best practice in occupational therapy assessments, interventions, risk management, and recovery-focused care. The post holder will actively participate in day-to-day service provision, working within a structured Occupational Therapy pathway and contributing to the development of a robust OT service. They will also be responsible for supporting colleagues in implementing treatment plans and maintaining strong professional links within the Trust to uphold standards and support the ongoing evolution of the profession.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. 

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.