Senior Occupational Therapist in Wokingham

Are you looking for a new rewarding position working alongside a fantastically supportive team who consistently rate their job satisfaction highly? We are looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our well-established CAMHS T4, Alternative to admission Day Hospital and Home Treatment service. Our service provides interventions for young people with complex mental health issues requiring Tier-4 level care, but who benefit from a more flexible, community-based approach.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of Occupational Therapy care plans, and activities to support therapy plans, for young people referred to the Berkshire CAMHS Phoenix, Tier 4 alternative to admission Day Hospital and Home Treatment Service. The service based in CAMHS Phoenix on the Wokingham Community Hospital site is a hospital at home service that provides evidence based psychiatric, nursing and therapeutic interventions for young people under the age of 18 presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties assessed as requiring Tier 4 level care, outside of inpatient unit.

Main duties of the job

The service will operate from 8am-8pm Mon-Fri; 9am-5pm Sat, Sun & Bank holidays (365 days per year). This post will operate over core hours Monday-Friday (to be agreed with the post holder) however the post holder will be required to occasionally work up to 20.00hrs and weekends to meet the needs of the patient group such as:

• families are demonstrably unable to attend at different times
• As a result of multiple DNAs
• To hold multifamily therapy
• To run group specific work.

The role includes delivering care to young people both individually and in groups, on site at CAMHS Phoenix, in the young person’s home and via digital media. The post holder will be expected to work within this complex and variable setting, without direct supervision, but reporting to and in collaboration with senior colleagues, to deliver a high standard of evidence-based care and treatment in order to maximise each young person’s individual potential. This post includes working with families and/or carers in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and also with community CAMHS, children’s social care and other Local Authority and voluntary sector colleagues. The Service is an integral part of the wider specialist CAMHs service in Berkshire and is managed alongside and closely linked to the CAMHS Specialist Community Teams including CAMHS crisis, eating disorders and early intervention in psychosis services and relevant adult mental health services.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
• Your wellbeing is important to us.

Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

• Compassion towards people struggling with complex social and mental health difficulties, and a heartfelt desire to help others;
• Resilience which enables you to work in a fast-paced and at times demanding NHS environment;
• Commitment to your colleagues and the ability to support each other, muck in and pull together as a team
• Creativity and innovation as you will be a part of a team which prides itself on adapting quickly and innovatively to change and challenges

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Emma Regan via email: emma.regan@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
• HPC Registration
• Further relevant qualification in the field of mental health

Training

Previous Experience

• Post-qualification experience which may include role of a supervisee for junior staff or students, and leadership experience, which may be gained if you have been working as a qualified O.T. for 2 years or more
• Experience of working with children and young people with mental health problems
• Experience of working with people with mental health problems
• Experience of individual and group work OT intervention
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Thorough working knowledge of mental health problems and their management
• Ability to offer a range of good quality OT assessments and treatment interventions to individuals and groups
• Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities within caseload management
• Ability to apply patient-led principles and form non-discriminatory therapeutic relationships with the service users and their parents/carers
• Ability to take responsibility appropriate to senior clinician role, and make decisions
• Ability to contribute creatively to the development of the service.
• Ability to work within a changing and progressive environment
• Ability to deal with emotionally demanding situations, and to remain calm under pressure
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance

Additional Requirements

• Able to commit to flexible working patterns, including weekend working and shift work
• Ability to travel independently and efficiently to deliver clinical care from multiple sites including service user homes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£40,617 to £48,778 a year per annum (inc. of HCAS)