Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner

Ward S3 is a specialist inpatient 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.

The post holder will have proven clinical skills in working with service users with complex mental and physical needs. They will be responsible for day-to-day delivery of OT within ward S3, including the management and supervision of 2 band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistants. 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.

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.

• 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 provides 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 provide support, education, and professional leadership to non-registered staff and students.
• To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health.
• To 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 adaptations to the service user's social and physical environments.
• 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.

Education/Qualifications

• Degree and extensive clinical experience.
• Professional qualifications in Occupational Therapy e.g., 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.
• 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 and empowering the behaviours of others.
• The ability to multitask and adapt 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

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