Occupational Therapist

3 days ago

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?

EIP Suffolk is currently able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our highly skilled and experienced team delivering bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 - 65 years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.

We are currently looking to recruit a full time Band 5 AfC Occupational Therapist to our West Suffolk base in Bury St Edmunds. Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.

EIP Suffolk recognise the essential role Occupational Therapy plays within our multidisciplinary team and ensures a truly holistic treatment and support approach for our service users and / their families.

The successful candidate will work alongside Senior OT based in East Suffolk and EIP Leadership team to further develop and embed our Occupational Therapy model countywide.

Main duties of the job

EIP Suffolk use the Model of Human Occupation and associated assessments, this is a widely adopted model across the Trust and will assist with informing your interventions for both your own assigned caseload and across the base MDT. The successful applicant will be supported to be familiar with this model and work towards a level of confidence enabling them to support OT students on placement creating a supportive environment to encourage learning and progression.

As a practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families. The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising Care Programme Approach to manage an assigned community caseload. Your role would hold protected time to offer Occupational Therapy assessment and care planning across the West clinical caseload in addition to Care Coordinating your own small caseload.

Your role would hold a lead responsibility for coordinating and engaging with our Social Recovery groupwork programme.

About us

NSFT have developed a robust clinical supervision model delivered by Lead Occupational Therapists, a community OT forum monthly, and access to networking and training including MOHO assessment tools.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will undertake the planning/delivery of direct patient care with regular access to supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a MDT/multi-agency environment.

Managing a caseload of individuals experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis and the provision of mental health care services in line with NICE guidelines / quality standards for EIS. Provide planned care/risk assessment / screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients needs via caseload management/supervision. Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required. To advise the Responsible Medical Officer(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients conditions and / or circumstances. To work within the MDT offering specialist OT advise, screening and / assessment and to form working partnerships with other care providers. To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT. To provide caseload management supervision to junior staff under direction and supervision of the Clinical Team Leader. Assist with the supervision of peers if requested. To enable service users to gain and maintain independence, always promoting hope and reducing potential stigma. Identifying personal learning and training needs through KSF, appraisal and personal development plans on an annual basis. Undertake the supervision of students that will be undertaking placements within the Team.

EIP Suffolk offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We will offer you a full EIP induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.

We are confident that being part of EIP Suffolk would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst having the much wider Trust network across Suffolk.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy Professional Registration with Health Care Professionals Council

Experience

Desirable

Working clinically in a Mental Health setting

Knowledge

Essential

Basic understanding of Mental Health Act 1983 and any updates Specialist Knowledge and application of Occupational Therapy Assessments and interventions relevant to this client group

Desirable

Understanding of applications of brief therapies Understanding of interface between primary and secondary care services Understanding of the principles and application of the recovery model and social inclusion

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