Senior Occupational Therapist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) seek a Senior Occupational Therapist to lead MOHO-based interventions within our mental health and community services in Peterborough. You will apply recovery and person-centred approaches to improve occupational performance and independence for service users.

Under the supervision of the Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner you will collaborate with service users and carers to create individualised plans, adjust interventions

Qualifications

• Experience and commitment to multidisciplinary and team working.
• Experience of innovative and person-centred Occupational Therapy interventions.
• Ongoing development of leadership skills.
• Ability to undertake risk assessments and implement risk management plans.
• Specialist knowledge of OT assessment, interventions and practice models relevant to the client group.

Responsibilities

• Lead OT interventions under MOHO principles and recovery-focused care.
• Work under supervision of the Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner.
• Collaborate with service users to create individualized plans.
• Modify OT plans with service users and carers; review goals in care planning.
• Promote equality of outcome reflecting ethnicity, gender, culture, physical health and age.

Skills

Leadership

Risk assessment

Liaison

OT MOHO

Education

Bachelor level OT qualification

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• The post holder will lead on the provision of Occupational Therapy interventions underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) and the principles of recovery and person-centred care.
• The Senior Occupational Therapist will work under the supervision of the Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner.
• Apply a high level of understanding of the impact of mental, social, sensory, emotional, cognitive, psychological, and physical issues on occupational performance, providing occupational therapy interventions and adaptations to the service user's social and physical environment.
• Work collaboratively with service users to create individualised, meaningful plans that support the achievement of Occupational Therapy goals.
• Ensure that all modification to OT intervention plans and assessments will involve the service user and where appropriate the carer; collaboratively identifying, pursuing and reviewing goals in the context of care planning.
• Promote equality of outcome for service users that reflect the individuality of their mental health need and those of ethnicity, gender, culture, physical health and age.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Minimum Bachelor level equivalent training in OT.

Desirable criteria

• Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience and commitment to the principles of multi disciplinary and team working.
• Experience of a variety of innovative and person-centred Occupational Therapy interventions.

Desirable criteria

• Working with people with a range of mental health problems.
• Experience of the implementation of an improvement project related to OT intervention of service improvement.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Evidence of ongoing development of leadership skills.
• Ability to undertake risk assessments and implement risk management plans.
• To liaise with and establish close links with a range of people and professionals.
• Specialist knowledge of OT assessment, interventions and practice models relevant to the client group.

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• May involve engagement in light activity such as sport, related to goals of the individual being worked with.
• Routine and regular use of computer.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visi