Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Eating Disorder Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-10913-SP
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 4, St George's site
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for new opportunities to further develop your interest and experience in eating disorders, be at the forefront of exciting new developments and making a real difference?
Come join our service-we have a bespoke opportunity which would enable you to utilise your specialist skills as a Band 7 AEDS Occupational Therapist.
We would also consider applicants who have had a minimum of 12 months at experience at Band 6 who feel they would benefit from a developmental framework to progress to Band 7.
Lincolnshire Eating Disorders Services are expanding countywide and are seeking an Occupational Therapist to join us in enhancing community services and improving experiences for service users and their carers.
Main duties of the job
You will play an essential role in supporting the development and delivery of pathways within the Adult Eating Disorders Service within LPFT and provide specialist treatments for all with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and/or Atypical Eating Disorders in the community on an outpatient basis across the county. A key part of this role will be supporting the development of the service as part of the mental health community transformation programme.
We are looking for a creative and highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wants to join a well-established and rapidly expanding service. The team is truly multidisciplinary - currently consisting of a Service Manager, Team Manager/Nurse Specialist; Consultant Psychiatrist; Counselling Psychologist; CBT Practitioners, Trainee Advanced Mental Health Practitioner, Nurse Specialist; Dieticians; Community Support Worker, Assistant Practitioner, Peer Support Worker, Psychological Interventions Facilitators and supportive administrative staff.
The Multi-Disciplinary Team as a service provides the latest in evidence based NICE psychological interventions to adults with an eating disorder. The team’s multi-disciplinary approach to the assessment and treatment of individuals is a real strength and an Occupational Therapist’s contribution would be a positive addition and much valued.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Trust is a great place to work as an Occupational Therapist. You will have access to clinical and professional supervision on a both 1:1 and group basis. Mentoring/coaching is available from the Associate Director of Allied Health Professions or Consultant Occupational Therapist. There is an active network of Allied Health Professionals working across the Trust and county you can join.
We offer a comprehensive induction programme and a wide range of CPD opportunities to enable you to further develop your skills in relation to your role and profession.
Staff wellbeing is important to us. We are open to discussing flexible working patterns which enable you to have a positive work/life balance.
If you would like to discuss this post further, please contact Heather Killick, Team Manager or Charlotte Long, Service Manager on 01522 421632.
If you would like to know more about support for Occupational Therapists working in the Trust contact Polly Blaydes – Associate Director of AHPs [email protected] for an informal discussion.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
- Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training at masters level, or equivalent experience in relevant specialist clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training
- Membership of relevant special interest groups
- Sensory knowledge in assessment and management of sensory needs
- Accredited practice placement educator (L’APPLE)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience as an OT
- Direct experience in working with people mental health needs and /or other transferable experience
- Experience of managing highly complex cases
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner
- Evidence of clinical leadership
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Building partnerships with outside agencies and volunteers
- Service Development and/or project management
- Experience of working with individuals with eating disorders
Skills
Essential criteria
- Documented evidence of CPD Knowledge of Mental Health legislation, Safeguarding, CPA and risk assessment and management
- Knowledge of best practice and evidenced based practice in occupational therapy and mental health with a commitment to socially inclusive practice
- Highly clinical reasoning and problem solving skills
- Experience of supervising, managing and developing staff
- Well-developed group work skills
- Understanding of the application of outcome measures
- Effective written & oral communication skills
- Ability to reflect & critically appraise own performance
- To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service user’s social and physical environment
- Delegation to others whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care
- Demonstrate skills in professional leadership
- Ability to work autonomously and collectively
Desirable criteria
- Ability to critically appraise and evaluate clinical research, reports or papers
- Psychosocial intervention skills
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Long
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 421632
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