Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner

Job overview

Ward S3 is a specialist inptaient unit caring for those suffering from severe eating disorders. As a senior member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work directly with service users, carers and families to help manage their eating disorder and make positive changes to improve quality of life.

The successful candidate will join an experienced and dedicated team of practitioners to promote and implement the role of occupational therapy within the service. The lead role is essential to ensure the provision of quality occupational therapy interventions including sensory and enabling approaches.

Main duties of the job

The role requires excellent planning and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise effectively.

The post holder will lead on maintaining effectiveness ensuring that high quality practice is delivered that produces meaningful and demonstrable outcomes, based on best evidence and identifying opportunities for development.

The role will have the opportunity to attend an OT mental health strategy forum and OT Leads meeting and receive professional supervision from a directorate AHP Lead.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and contributing to the therapeutic structure
• To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high-quality patient records
• To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based interventions
• To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessments, advice and interventions using advanced, clinical reasoning skills.

• To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health.

• To maintain your own continuing professional development (CPD) by maintaining an awareness of innovations and developments, and to incorporate them as appropriate into your practice.

Person specification

Eductaion/Qualifications

• Degree and extensive clinical experience.
• Professional qualifications in Occupational Therapy eg BSc OT
• Completion of Mentorship/Coaching Course or intention to complete.
• Evidence of Continuous professional development
• Evidence of postgraduate training relevant to the ongoing development of an experienced clinician

• Leadership qualification
• Qualification in evidence based psychological therapy relevant to eating disorders.
• Sensory Integration Practitioner Qualification.

Experience

• Experience of working alongside people with complex eating disorders
• Experience of supervising staff, clinically
• Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care pathway
• Extensive experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Extensive understanding of clinical governance
• Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Extensive experience of working within the CPA process.
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies

• Experience of leading clinical staff or teams in practice improvement
• Lived experience of mental health issues

Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced Clinical Skills in the planning and delivery of evidence based interventions.
• Excellent ability to develop effective professional relationships with others, (individuals and groups)
• Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters.
• Skills in influencing, empowering, behaviours of others.
• The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations.
• Advanced specialist knowledge of clinical assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group

• Ability to use manual handling techniques.
• Personal Skills

Other

• Ability to travel across sites and transport patients into the community.
• Able to use IT equipment

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 visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.