Occupational Therapist - Cambridge - ref. q23349615

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Cambridge Adult Locality Team. You should have a degree or relevant professional registration as an Occupational Therapist and will be an active member of a dynamic, highly motivated, skilled and creative team.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure and with a desire for innovation.

You will have the opportunity to manage a caseload of diverse service users, delivering a diverse range of clinical skills and building a therapeutic and recovery-based relationship.

Main duties of the job

The Cambridge Adult Locality team service supports working-age adults who have moderate to severe affective and psychotic disorders. The teams offer support in a number of ways, drawing from the expertise of such a variety of disciplines.

You will be working in a supportive environment that values your supervision and professional development. You will have a voice and role to play in service development.

The role will provide you with an opportunity to work within a sort after area where you experience wider, inter-disciplinary team dynamics. You will also work closely with external agencies and our local authority to support the needs of our service users.

Recovery principles are embedded in the work of the locality teams and we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.

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.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. The occupational therapist will provide specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation and the principles of recovery and enablement/reablement.
2. The occupational therapist will use specialist clinical skills and reasoning to manage a caseload with complex needs, working with a high degree of autonomy and referring to senior staff when necessary.
3. The occupational therapist will apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user's social and physical environment.
4. The occupational therapist will work collaboratively with service users to promote vocational rehabilitation and act as a team resource/specialist in vocational rehabilitation and employment.
5. With appropriate training the occupational therapist will deliver specialist occupational focused interventions including sensory integration/ approaches and enabling/reablement approaches.
6. The occupational therapist may be asked to undertake the role of care coordinator for a defined clinical caseload of service users with complex mental health needs.
7. The occupational therapist will ensure that all care planning will involve the service user and where appropriate the carer, collaboratively identifying, pursuing and reviewing goals in the context of care planning.
8. The occupational therapist will plan and implement specialist individual and /or group interventions collaboratively, to enable service users to achieve valued goals and desired occupational performance outcomes.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor level equivalent training in OT
• Additional clinical training relevant to specialism
• HCPC Professional Registration as OT

• Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Experience

• Working with people with a range of mental health challenges
• Experience of working with a range of statutory and non statutory services
• Working with carers or families
• Experience of supervising others.

• Service development or evaluation projects

Skills & Abilities

• Able to record information clearly and accurately
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Good team worker with effective interpersonal skills
• Self management/able to manage own caseload with indirect support
• Able to manage pressure of working in intensive environment
• Ability to deliver specialist occupational focused interventions such as sensory integration, reablement, vocational assessment

• Effective personal time management

Knowledge and understanding

• Specialist knowledge of OT assessment, intervention and practise models relevant to the service user group (e.g. MoHO)
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act
• Knowledge of RCOT and HCPC professional standards
• Good knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults at risk of abuse and children
• Knowledge of developments in occupational therapy

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need
• Ability to travel with or without patients throughout Cambridgeshire on a daily basis
• Committed to promoting a positive image of the occupational therapy service
• Seeks guidance appropriately

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.