Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

We are inviting applications from enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapists to join the development of an ARFID service in CEDS.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new development for an ARFID assessment, treatment, and consultation service at SWLSTG CYP Community Eating Disorders (CED) Service. The general CED Service is a busy, developing service which has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention. You will provide specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and expert clinical interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, in the ARFID Pathway, and their families. There will be opportunities for the post holder to contribute to ongoing service development for ARFID.

The team provides out-patient and consultation services to children and adolescents experiencing an eating disorder and the associated range of mental health and developmental problems. It is a multi-disciplinary, integrated service with appointments-based outpatient treatment as well as additional more intensive interventions.

Main duties of the job

We are recruiting a Band 7 Occupational Therapist into a new ARFID team in the CEDS service at Springfield Hospital.

The post will enhance your skills in specialist assessment of eating disorders and sensory needs, therapeutic engagement, occupational therapy interventions, working with families and joint working with multiple agencies/services.

The successful candidate would need to be registered with the HCPC and have significant experience working as an OT within mental health settings. Experience working with children and young people OR with people with eating disorders is also essential although strong supervision and support will be provided to the successful candidate. Further training in sensory assessment would be desirable.

This post would be suitable for an experienced band 6 Occupational Therapist looking to develop specialist skills in this area or for an existing band 7 looking to move into this specialist area of practice and be part of developing this new role.

The role would be supervised by the OT Lead for eating disorders and/or OT Lead for CAMHS and be part of the thriving trust wide Eating disorder OT professional development forum as well as having links to the Trust CAMHS professional development forum and quarterly trust wide OT development events.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a specialist Occupational Therapy service to the Eating Disorder service including clients with complex mental health.
• To use evidence based, client centred Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions and outcome measures underpinned by Model of Human Occupational and the Recovery Approach.
• To be responsible for leading delegated occupational therapy and multi-disciplinary projects primarily within the CYP Eating Disorder Service and within other services as delegated.
• To act as the designated Disability Champion leading the multi-disciplinary team in Disability Equality matters.
• To work collaboratively and effectively within a multi-disciplinary community team, liaising with inpatient services, paediatric, and community-based services as required.
• To conduct audit and review and to lead on Qi projects which include Occupational Therapy interventions as part of a multi-disciplinary team approach.
• To provide leadership for junior Occupational Therapy and support staff across CAMHS community services, through supervision and appraisal.
• To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement.
• To attend and contribute to relevant clinical meetings.
• To develop and maintain professional practice within the field of children and young peoples mental health and Occupational Therapy.
• To provide Occupational Therapy interventions flexibly within different settings as required.
• To respond, sometimes at short notice, to requests to see the teams patients either individually or jointly with other team members.
• To attend and participate in all daily team meeting and weekly zoning meetings unless absent by prior arrangement. To contribute to specialist multi-disciplinary eating disorder assessment and treatment.
• To liaise and provide consultation to the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
• Registration to practice in the UK
• Evidence of post registration training relevant to mental health practice
• Training in the theory and application of the model of human occupation within the first 4 months of appointment
• Masters degree in subject relevant to clinical post
• Practice placement educators course within one year of appointment
• Apple registration
• Leadership training

Experience

• Experience of carrying a caseload of service users with complex and diverse needs in a mental health setting
• Post-graduate clinical experience highly related to clinical field
• Experience of working in an inter-professional team.
• Experience of working within a multi-agency environment.
• Experience of working in a range of mental health settings
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural context
• Experience of maintaining a written record of continual professional development
• Experience of individual and groupwork
• Active involvement in service change/development
• Experience of writing specialist occupational therapy reports
• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience of supervising junior staff
• Experience of being a practice placement educator
• Experience of using mental health services as a service user, or carer, relative, friend of a service user.
• Experience of publishing own work
• Post-registration research activity
• Experience of working with deaf people or children

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£27,160 to £30,490 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs