Job summaryWe are looking for an Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Discovery programme. Discovery is a psychological and occupational therapy informed intervention for female and male offenders with personality disorder who are living in the community. Discovery aims to assist service-users in transition from custody to the community, to achieve pro-social community living and to enable effective risk management. The Discovery team consists of Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Offender Managers and Housing and Resettlement. You will work with service-users to develop occupational therapy formulations, provide occupation-focussed occupational therapy intervention and contribute to overall psychological and risk formulation.During this fixed term there may also be the opportunity to spend some time working into the regional PIPEs (Psychologically Informed Planned Environments) alongside fellow Discovery Occupational Therapists.Main duties of the jobYou need to have experience of working as part of multi-disciplinary teams with people with complex mental health problems. You need to be able to demonstrate commitment to delivering theory-led and evidenced-based intervention.The work of Discovery is challenging at both professional and personal levels. To support this work, the Discovery team actively maintain a reflective and supportive culture. You will be provided with extensive training and development opportunities and have profession specific supervision.The office base is situated in Leeds. You will be required to travel by car within the Yorkshire region on a regular basis.Please do contact us for further information.About usThe 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 an incredible 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 for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesThe Senior Occupational Therapist works with the Discovery programme female and male service users, primarily in the community, to develop occupational therapy formulations and provide occupational therapy intervention. The Occupational Therapist in collaboration with Psychology, Offender Manager and Housing colleagues contributes to the overall psychological and risk formulations of service users. The Occupational Therapist promotes knowledge and understanding of the occupational perspective of health and contributes this understanding in service forums towards the aims of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway of increasing public safety by reducing risk and promoting the well-being of service users.During this fixed term there may also be the opportunity to spend some time working into the regional PIPEs (Psychologically Informed Planned Environments) alongside fellow Discovery Occupational Therapists.Person SpecificationQualifications / RegistrationEssentialHave masters, degree or diploma level of Occupational Therapy qualification and registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Health and Care Professions CouncilExperienceEssentialExperience of working with people with personality disorder or with people with mental health experience which could be described as akin to personality disorder or with people with complex mental health / psychological problemsSkillsEssentialUse of developed skills to communicate effectively orally and in writing information to service users and professional colleaguesHave an understanding of the importance of the therapeutic relationship in working with people complex mental health problems and the ability to establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationshipsUnderstanding of and the ability to provide holistic occupation-focused occupational therapyDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameLeeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation TrustAddressPersonality Disorders ServicesPoplar House, St Mary's HospitalLeedsLS12 3QEEmployer's websitehttps://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)