Senior Occupational Therapist

E P U T; Wickford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist for its Secure Mental Health Services. The post involves working within a multidisciplinary team to provide bio-psychosocial interventions, patient assessments, and treatment planning. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience in mental health contexts.

Benefits

Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities and opportunities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy required.
• HCPC Registration is mandatory.
• Experience in secure mental health settings is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assessing patients admitted to Secure Service wards.
• Making decisions on treatment interventions needed.
• Communicating treatment plans to multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Good oral communication skills

Utilisation of appropriate assessment techniques

Application of knowledge in planning realistic outcomes

Treatment modalities application

Critical reflection and evidence use

Effective team player

Education

Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy

HCPC Registration

Job description

Employer heading

Band 6

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.

We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

We Care

We Learn

We Empower

Our strategic objectives

We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.

We will enable each other to be the best that we can.

We will work together with our partners to make our services better.

We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

Mental Health Services

Community Health Services

Learning Disabilities Services

Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in ourservice directory.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to work within the Occupational Therapy Team based at Brockfield House in Wickford Essex. Working alongside, Occupational Therapists, assistants and activity coordinators well as the wider MDT. The post holder will be responsible for completing OT assessments and OT interventions, contributing to the therapeutic timetable, as well as providing supervision to the activity co-ordinators.

Brockfield House is a Regional Secure Service covering the demographic area of South and North Essex, Luton and Beds. There are 7 wards, 5 Medium Secure and 2 Low Secure for men and women; providing interim services for male/female recovering from severe and enduring mental illness within secure environment. The focus is on multi-disciplinary approach from nursing, medical occupational and vocational therapy, psychology and social work staff. The aim is to rehabilitate patients to a stage where they require a more open regime within a less secure environment. The care provided is based on the recovery model. The aim is to provide individualised care and evaluation of the patient's progress and recovery. People are encouraged to be involved in their care planning and, where possible, the family is also involved. The wards operate on a multi-disciplinary team basis with regular input from the Community Mental Health Team and Community Forensic Team .

Main duties of the job

· To work as a senior clinician in Secure Mental Health Services providing a range of specialist bio-psychosocial interventions and supporting carers and families.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities and opportunities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To assess patients admitted to the Secure Service wards.

· To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.

· To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.

· To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with patients and their carers.

· To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.

· To undertake manual handling assessments ensuring other professionals and carers are aware of manual handling needs.

· To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower patients and facilitate optimal functional performance.

· To liaise with Social Services and Housing Organisations concerning provision of equipment and home adaptations.

· To manage a complex caseload.

· To apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of patients in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention, e.g. home visits.

Person specification

Education

Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy

HCPC Registration

Desirable criteria

Additional relevant qualifications, e.g. counselling, CBT, etc

Knowledge

Advanced/working knowledge of pathology and occupation in its widest sense, e.g. Mental Health, musculoskeletal, neurological, sensory impairment, the impact of the aging process on function.

Working knowledge of the prescription of aids and adaptations to independent living.

Risk assessment particularly in relation to home assessments.

Appropriate assessment techniques.

Theories in Group work delivery

Desirable criteria

Model of Creative Ability

Recovery College

Specialist Assessments

Skills/Experience

Good oral communication skills based on fluency on the English language

Utilisation of appropriate assessment techniques to assess individual’s abilities in relation to their desired goals in everyday activities including mobility.

Application of advanced/working knowledge in order to plan and achieve realistic outcomes for individuals and groups – physical and mental health.

Apply a variety of treatment modalities in group and one to one format.

Critically reflect on and use evidence in order to develop best practice.

High standard of communication skills written and verbal.

Previous experience of working with people with adults with mental health problems in a secure setting.

Personal Qualities

Shares the Trust’s Beliefs and models this in their attitude and behaviour:

Ensures that the organisational values of open, compassionate and empowering are demonstrated by self and others every day and that any matters of concern are addressed in a timely way, either directly; or raised with the relevant Line Manager; or through the relevant processes within the Trust as appropriate.

Evidence of effective team player disposition.

Please note -

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing [email protected] .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.