Occupational Therapist Advanced PractitionerinCambridgeinCambridgePUBLISHED THU 2 JAN 2025
Band 7: £46,148 to £52,809 a year Per annum pro rata
PERMANENT GOOD SALARY
EATING DISORDER MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Opportunity to work in a specialized setting focused on severe eating disorders, allowing for impactful and meaningful work with service users and families.
Role as a senior practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team, promoting collaboration and sharing of expertise with various healthcare professionals.
Leadership opportunities in managing and supervising Occupational Therapy Assistants, fostering the development of junior staff.
Access to professional supervision from a directorate AHP Lead, supporting ongoing personal and professional development.
Engagement in strategic forums and meetings, such as the OT mental health strategy forum, to influence and shape occupational therapy practices.
Ability to implement evidence-based interventions that produce demonstrable outcomes, enhancing the quality of care provided to service users.
Focus on continuous professional development and staying updated on innovations in occupational therapy, enhancing clinical practice and knowledge.
The Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner role at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust involves working in Ward S3, a specialized inpatient unit for individuals with severe eating disorders. As a senior member of the multi-disciplinary team, the practitioner will engage directly with service users, families, and carers to facilitate positive changes in managing eating disorders and enhancing quality of life. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality occupational therapy interventions, managing and supervising Occupational Therapy Assistants, and ensuring effective multi-disciplinary care planning and patient record accuracy.
The ideal candidate will possess advanced clinical skills in addressing complex mental and physical health needs and will lead efforts to promote the role of occupational therapy within the service. This role offers opportunities for professional development, including participation in strategic forums and supervision from leadership within the Allied Health Professionals (AHP) framework. Additionally, the practitioner will provide expertise in occupational therapy assessments and interventions while fostering the relationship between occupation and health, ultimately driving the growth of occupational therapy's role in patient care.
The ideal candidate will possess advanced clinical skills in addressing complex mental and physical health needs and will lead efforts to promote the role of occupational therapy within the service. This role offers opportunities for professional development, including participation in strategic forums and supervision from leadership within the Allied Health Professionals (AHP) framework. Additionally, the practitioner will provide expertise in occupational therapy assessments and interventions while fostering the relationship between occupation and health, ultimately driving the growth of occupational therapy's role in patient care.
Opportunity to work in a specialized setting focused on severe eating disorders, allowing for impactful and meaningful work with service users and families.
Role as a senior practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team, promoting collaboration and sharing of expertise with various healthcare professionals.
Leadership opportunities in managing and supervising Occupational Therapy Assistants, fostering the development of junior staff.
Access to professional supervision from a directorate AHP Lead, supporting ongoing personal and professional development.
Engagement in strategic forums and meetings, such as the OT mental health strategy forum, to influence and shape occupational therapy practices.
Ability to implement evidence-based interventions that produce demonstrable outcomes, enhancing the quality of care provided to service users.
Focus on continuous professional development and staying updated on innovations in occupational therapy, enhancing clinical practice and knowledge.
Ward S3 is a specialist inptaient 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 phsyical needs. They will be responsible for day-to-day delivery of OT within ward S3, including the management and supervison 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.
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- 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 provide 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 adaptions 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.
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