Specialist Occupational Therapist – Eating Disorder Treatment

Coventry And Warwickshire Partnership Nhs Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave benefits

Professional development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist to work in the eating disorder day treatment service in Warwick, United Kingdom. The post holder will deliver day-to-day services to individuals and families, and provide cover for peers across CWPT as required.

Key duties include applying specialist OT knowledge, assessing service users with various tools, and supervising staff and students within a multidisciplinary setting.

Qualifications

• Relevant Professional Qualification in OT
• Current unrestricted registration with HCPC
• Relevant training and experience specialist short courses
• Substantial experience in a mental health setting
• Experience of using recovery focused intervention
• Developed specialist clinical knowledge gained within a similar environment over a considerable period of time
• Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk taking
• Experience of safeguarding
• Experience of supervising / overseeing staff and students

Responsibilities

• Apply enhanced clinical knowledge and skills to the work environment
• Identify and verify factors including contra-indications from patient history
• Deliver specific interventions in line with the treatment pathway, including complex clients
• Deliver professional evidence-based OT assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and evaluation of service users needs
• Deliver Occupational Therapy through patient engagement in meaningful activity in self-care, productivity and leisure
• Evaluate potential efficacy of planned intervention given all available data
• Liaise with colleagues and other clinicians to clarify and resolve any discrepancies in evaluation of patient data
• Generate options including modification or alternatives to planned intervention to meet clinical need
• Verify suitability and potential effectiveness of planned intervention or suggested alternatives
• Agree course of action with those responsible for performing the intervention
• Document key points of agreement, including factors influencing advice
• Assess and plan care delivery for individual service users within Care Programme Approach
• Facilitate transfer between services, signpost and/ or discharge as appropriate
• Routinely enquire, identify and report safeguarding issues
• Report safeguarding issues identified via others
• Perform the role of investigator for safeguarding as directed
• Work in partnership with service users in developing their care plan
• Obtain valid consent for a range of healthcare activities
• Participate as part of the multi-disciplinary team implementing and reviewing care
• Advise on physical health and wellbeing in a holistic way
• Liaise with service providers to enable access and use of services respecting values
• Evaluate effectiveness of interventions for recovery and wellbeing
• Undertake OT process per Trust policies and professional codes

Job description

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist to work in the eating disorder day treatment service in Warwick, United Kingdom. The post holder will deliver day-to-day services to individuals and families, and provide cover for peers across CWPT as required.

Key duties include applying specialist OT knowledge, assessing service users with various tools, and supervising staff and students within a multidisciplinary setting.