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Are you an OT looking for a new challenge in an innovative, one-of-a-kind mental health service?

Would you like to work in an environment where the value of Occupational Therapy is recognised as essential for delivering optimal patient care, and closely alongside a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Psychologists, Doctors, Nurses, Social Worker and Physical Health Care Nurse.  Along with your Occupational Therapy Team, including a Technical Instructor and Occupational Therapy Assistant.

 Based in Lincoln, Francis Willis Unit is a 15 bed low secure unit for males with severe mental illness and complex needs who may also have been in contact with the Criminal Justice System

As a valued team member, you will work with service users, carers, MDT and external services to promote patients’ independence and improve their quality of life and well-being.  We are licenced as a trust to access the MOHO assessment tools to guide and outcome measure our interventions.   Occupational performance and participation will be central to your practice, and you will be encouraged to develop skills which support service users to achieve and maintain meaningful roles and routines.

The Francis Willis team are strong advocates of co-production and collaboration to empower them to be able to manage their long-term mental health conditions, work on their ongoing recovery and social integration/inclusion needs and ultimately work towards their optimum quality of life in the community.

Main duties of the job

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

Contribute to ward reviews, supporting service users and carers to engage with services and contribute to their care.

Manage difficult and highly distressing service user behaviour, including verbal and physical aggression.  Where neccessary this could involve utilising Breakaway or restraint techniques.

To provide effective supervision, support, and guidance for non-registered workers and any work delegated to them.

Record all self generated information within the service users clinical notes and/or using the Trust’s clinical information system (RIO)

To provide both formal and informal training, health promotion and advice to patients and carer/relatives regarding their overall treatment needs to aid independance.

To provide high quality practice placement education for students as detailed in departmental guidelines acting as mentor as required.

To promote a learning environment and culture within the clinical team and wider service

Where required - to participate in the preceptorship programme during the first post registration year in the NHS

To maintain own continuing professionals development and use reflective practice

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.