Advanced Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS; Chester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Advanced Specialist Occupational Therapist

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000. The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership.

Terms and conditions apply; please see attached document.

If this applies to you, please state this on your application so we can discuss this with you if you are invited to interview.

Ancora House comprises of 26 beds across 2 wards, Indigo and Coral. Within the Tier 4 CAMHS service, there is also a specialist Eating Disorder Service (CHEDS) and Ancora CARE.

This role requires being professionally responsible for developing the Occupational Therapy provision to the Tier 4 CAMHS service (Cheshire and Merseyside) and ensuring it is needs-led, evidence-based, and in line with current legislation, values, and service principles.

To work using a high level of specialist expertise within the multidisciplinary teams across Tier 4 CAMHS, managing a defined caseload of service users with complex mental health and learning disability needs, providing core occupational therapy interventions that enable individuals to work towards a valued lifestyle and aim for optimum level of functional ability, including specialist training and advice to other team members and partner agencies.

Main duties of the job

1. To undertake occupational therapy assessments for a specified caseload of service users addressing occupational performance, strengths, and skills deficits, enabling the service user in areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure.
2. To collaboratively identify the goals of occupational therapy intervention with the service user as part of the overall care plan.
3. To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes to the client's physical, sensory, and social environment.
4. To plan and implement complex individual and/or group evidence-based interventions/programmes of care, in collaboration with the service user, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
5. To monitor, evaluate, and modify treatment for clients with complex needs in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention.
6. To assess and actively manage individual, activity, and environmental risk to ensure the safety of the service user, self, and the wider public whilst recognising the right of the service user to take positive risks in promoting their recovery.

About us

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do.

Job responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see documents to download section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma or BSc in Occupational Therapy
• Registration with Health Professions Council
• Accreditation as Practice Placement Educator
• Significant postgraduate training working towards a Master's degree in a speciality relevant to the post
• Accreditation in Assessment and Motor Processing Skills or be willing to gain within 12 months of appointment
• Current disability equipment training or be willing to gain within 6 months of appointment
• Current C and R training or be willing to gain within 3 months of appointment
• Relevant Master's Degree
• CLAIT/European Computer Driving Licence or equivalent
• Membership of Professional Body
• First line leadership or management training

Knowledge and Expertise

• Advanced clinical skills relevant to the speciality
• Good knowledge of clinical governance and clinical audit/research
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good knowledge and awareness of current legislation and guidance pertaining to Mental Health services and its implications for Occupational Therapy
• A good understanding of recovery concepts within mental health services.
• Ability to work under pressure and set priorities
• Good knowledge of effective care management and planning of treatment packages
• Ability to manage own caseload and work as part of a team
• Group leadership skills
• Excellent negotiation and organisational skills, with individuals and groups
• Good knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance
• Skills in handling and moving

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years post-registration experience in Mental Health
• Experience of working in a PICU/LSU multidisciplinary environment
• Experience of supervising and supporting junior staff and students
• Experience of using Staff Performance and Development Process
• Documented evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Initiating and leading clinical audit
• Experience of introducing new and innovative interventions
• Experience of working as a Band 7
• Minimum of 4 years post-registration experience

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.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Countess of Chester Health Park, Liverpool Road