Occupational Therapist Band 6

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Solihull Community Learning Disability Team

Occupational Therapist

Band 6

37.5 hours

Permanent

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Solihull Learning Disability community team. We are seeking an innovative and enthusiastic OT with working knowledge of people with learning disabilities, including challenging behaviour and sensory processing issues. The service uses the Model of Human Occupation as a clinical model and an understanding of the model and standardised assessments used would be an advantage. The post holder will hold a complex caseload and be expected to work flexibly.

Come and join our friendly multidisciplinary team and build on your clinical skills and knowledge in the learning disabilities field. The post holder will be supported by an experienced band 7 OT. Both continuing professional development and lifelong learning is integral within the service.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide specialist therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment programmes to individual clients with complex needs referred to the multidisciplinary service.
2. To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision.
3. To support less experienced staff and students and colleagues deliver the Trust contracted services.
4. To provide expert advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, clients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support groups.

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide specialist therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment programmes to individual clients with complex needs referred to the multidisciplinary service.
2. To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision.
3. To support less experienced staff and students and colleagues deliver the Trust contracted services.
4. To provide expert advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, clients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy.
• Unrestricted registration with Health Professions Council (HPC).

Experience

• Competence with clients with complex needs, communication issues and/or challenging behaviour.
• Experience of applying models of practice and frames of reference relevant to this post.
• Worked as part of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary team.

Other

• Car Owner/Driver.

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.