Senior Occupational TherapistinWickham MarketinWickham MarketPUBLISHED WED 19 MAR 2025

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?

EIP Suffolk is currently able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our highly skilled and experienced team delivering bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 - 65 years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.

We are currently looking to recruit a full time Band 6 AfC Senior Occupational Therapist to our East Suffolk base in Wickham Market. Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.

Application as maybe submitted by Band 5 AfC OT with mental health experience would be considered.

EIP Suffolk use the Model of Human Occupation and associated assessments, this is a widely adopted model across the trust and will assist with informing your interventions for both your own assigned caseload and across the base MDT. The successful applicant will be expected to be familiar with this model and work towards a level of confidence enabling them to support new Band 5s or OT students on placement creating a supportive environment to encourage learning and progression.

As a practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families. The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising Care Programme Approach to manage a community caseload. Your role would hold protected time to offer Occupational Therapy assessment and care planning across the East clinical caseload in addition to case management of your own small caseload.

About us

The post holder will undertake the planning/delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a MDT/multi-agency environment.

• Managing a caseload of individuals experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis and the provision of mental health care services in line with NICE guidelines / quality standards for EIS.
• Provide planned care/risk assessment / screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients needs via caseload management/supervision.
• Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
• To advise the Responsible Medical Officer(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients conditions and / or circumstances.
• To work within the MDT offering specialist OT advise, screening and / assessment and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
• To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT.
• To provide caseload management supervision to junior staff under direction and supervision of the Clinical Team Leader.
• Assist with the supervision of peers if requested.
• To enable service users to gain and maintain independence, always promoting hope and reducing potential stigma.
• To lead on Social Recovery groupwork programme.
• Identifying personal learning and training needs through KSF, appraisal and personal development plans on an annual basis.
• Undertake the supervision of students that will be undertaking placements within the Team.

We are confident that being part of EIP Suffolk would enable you to be the practitioner you trained, and would like, to be. This role will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference, whilst having the much wider Trust network across Suffolk.

EIP Suffolk offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We will offer you a full EIP induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.

NSFT have developed a robust clinical supervision model delivered by Lead Occupational Therapists, a community OT forum monthly, and access to Trust wide networking and training including MOHO assessment tools.