Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 364-A-8006
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 439 Ipswich Road Rehab Unit
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
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 our service directory.
Job overview
Senior Occupational Therapist Band 6
439 Ipswich Road Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit.
If you are looking for an exciting new challenge this could be the opportunity you are looking for. A vacancy has arisen for a full-time Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to join our rehabilitation unit at 439 Ipswich Road, Colchester.
439 Ipswich Road is a multidisciplinary specialist, open recovery and rehabilitation (mixed gender) unit for service users with complex psychosis.
The unit is an 11-bed house set in the community with shared bathrooms, a shared kitchen, dining room and extensive outdoor space.
Main duties of the job
As the Senior OT, you will have responsibility for the OT provision at Ipswich Road, which includes completing assessments, treatment plans, managing individual and group interventions, accessing the community, as well as supervising one full-time OT Assistant.
This post will particularly suit a motivated, experienced, treatment focussed and skilled Occupational Therapist, who is competent in the management of clients with a focus on utilising Occupational Therapy approaches and interventions that support recovery. A knowledge of the Model of Creative Ability is desirable but not essential as in-house training will be available.
We are seeking a resilient enthusiastic individual who is committed to the provision of therapy within the inpatient service. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including nurses, support workers, psychiatrists and psychology. It is important that you are able to work autonomously whilst adopting a flexible and positive approach.
The AHP leadership is committed to provide ongoing and continuous professional development for all staff. We offer exceptional education, training and development opportunities as well as a wide range of benefits, which include salary sacrifice schemes and the opportunity to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave to support a healthy work-life balance.
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
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Duties:
1 To assess clients referred to the service.
2To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.
3To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.
4To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with clients and their carers.
5To liaise closely with community Occupational Therapy Department as required.
6To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.
7To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower clients and facilitate optimal functional performance.
8To liaise with Social Services and Housing Organisations concerning provision of equipment and home adaptations.
9 To manage a complex caseload.
1To apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of clients in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention.
1 To make clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of client care to assistants, junior staff, students, carers and statutory or non-statutory bodies.
1To regularly review clients’ progress in order to evaluate and interpret effectiveness of treatment plans, and amend treatment or discharge clients accordingly.
1 To ensure that treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.
1 To develop and initiate interventions based on the integration of theoretical knowledge in order to meet unique client needs.
1 To keep up to date clinical records in line with professional standards and local record keeping policies.
1 To provide written and verbal reports as required at any stage in the treatment process in line with Occupational Therapy Clinical Governance Standards.
Indirect Clinical Duties:
1.To plan and co-ordinate the specialist Occupational Therapy Service within the Acute Adult in-patient services, planning and prioritising work for self and junior staff.
2To attend clinical case discussions at meetings or ward rounds, providing specialist professional advice and recommendations.
3To participate in clinical audit, research and evidence based practice.
4To initiate and lead projects to meet identified service needs.
5 To promote the roles and skills of Occupational Therapy to other professionals, students, clients and carers.
6To contribute constructively to multi-disciplinary team working by contributing to policies and procedures for Occupational Therapy and close liaison with other professionals.
Profession Specific Duties:
1To attend professional Occupational Therapy meetings as required.
2To attend appropriate training events as appropriate.
3To maintain a continuing professional development portfolio.
4To undertake annual appraisal.
5To contribute constructively to the supervision process.
6To provide supervision and day-to-day operational management to junior staff in the Acute Adult in-patient Department.
7To supervise students.
8To occasionally represent the Occupational Therapy profession at service development forums.
9To comply with policies and agreed procedures for annual leave, sickness and time owing.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- OT qualification
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Sensory training
skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within mental health inpatient setting
- 2 years post qualification experience
- Management of staff
Desirable criteria
- knowledge of VdTMoCA
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ellen van den Hoven
- Job title
- Head OT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07811 166399
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