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In this dynamic role, you’ll use your clinical expertise to guide and mentor a dedicated team of professionals, ensuring they deliver high-quality care and support. With a focus on evidence-based practices and innovative techniques, such as sensory integration, your leadership will foster an environment where both staff and service users can thrive. If you’re ready to bring your creativity, enthusiasm, and a collaborative spirit to a groundbreaking service, we want to hear from you. Together, let’s help individuals take positive steps towards recovery and a brighter future.
A exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Advanced Occupational Therapist to lead a new Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adult's with an Eating Disorder.This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promoting recovery from an Eating Disorder.
Your clinical skills will involve working with severe/complex individuals with an Eating Disorder and have a excellent understanding of occupationally focused evidence based assessments and skills to provide therapeutic interventions in a community setting.
Your managerial skills will require you to professionally lead and manage the new team, providing supervision, guidance, support and structure.
You will be working as part of a small team of professionals providing assessment, treatment and interventions to adults with a Eating Disorder. Individuals who will be accessing the service will be from Devon and Cornwall and interventions are aimed at preventing an admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and supporting early discharge in a stepped down way from a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit back into the Community.The Intensive Home Treatment Team will be reviewed and monitored as a new service with a formal evaluation taking place at the end of the 12 month period. We hope that individuals feel well supported, learn new skills and can make positive changes towards recovery.
As a new service we will need the candidate to be creative, be able to work well with others and the capacity to offer lots of energy, ideas and leadership.
Please see attached job description.
About us
The Advanced Occupational Therapist within the Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adults with a Eating Disorder, will be the lead practitioner with assessment, formulation and co-ordinating the delivery of care. They will be co-ordinating staff around the locality and supporting with the delivery of the interventions offered. They will also provide training and support to the team in relations to sensory integration within the pathway of care.
For the full job description, please see attached documentation.
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