Occupational Therapist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave entitlement

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car

NHS discounts

Job summary

The Occupational Therapist will be based in the Eating Disorder Day Treatment Service at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, delivering day-to-day OT input to individuals and families in a specialist setting.

You will assess service users using a range of tools, applying observational and communication skills, and contribute to a learning environment for staff and students. You may provide cover for peers across CWPT as needed.

Qualifications

• Assess service users using a variety of assessment tools and specialised observational and communication skills.
• Provide a learning environment for staff and students.
• Contribute specialist OT input to the eating disorder day treatment service.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Occupational Therapy makes a significant and specialist contribution in the eating disorder day treatment service.
• Deliver day-to-day service to individuals and families and carers via evidence-based interventions.
• Provide cover for peers across CWPT, planned or unplanned as required.

Skills

Assessment skills

Observational skills

Communication skills

Flexible cover

Education

Bachelors/Masters in Occupational Therapy

Job description

The post holder will be required to work within the new eating disorder day treatment service.

The post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of the service to individual clients and their families and carers via a range of evidence-based interventions. They will be expected to provide cover for peers across the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, planned or unplanned as required.

• To ensure Occupational Therapy makes a significant and specialist contribution in the eating disorder day treatment service.
• Assess service users using a variety of assessment tools, specialised observational and communication skills.
• To provide a learning environment for staff and students.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Andrews Job title: Head of Service Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02476 232940