Due to a member of staff going on maternity leave, we have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and highly motivated Occupational Therapist to work with individuals who receive support from the Community Learning Disabilities Occupational Therapy team. You will have the chance to work as part of a specialist and dedicated Multi‑Disciplinary Team, where you will help to improve the lives and wellbeing of individuals with a learning disability. You will use your core OT knowledge to promote participation and independence in Activities of Daily Living. The Essex Specialist Learning Disabilities Service is committed to improving the health and well‑being of people with a learning disability across North‑East, Mid & West Essex, by working in a simple, person‑centred way that empowers individuals to maximise their potential. We are a supportive and forward‑thinking team, with great peer networks. We actively promote learning and professional development with opportunities in both clinical and leadership fields of work.
* Provide high quality, comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for people with Learning Disabilities with complex needs.
* Work in an interdisciplinary way to assess service user’s needs, devise care plans and evaluate outcomes and to carry a caseload as a member of a multi‑disciplinary team.
* Provide clinical advice and support for service users that present with behaviour that challenges and require support with their mental health.
* Work directly with service users, carers, colleagues and other service providers.
* Deliver training and education to other professionals, carers and family.
About the Employer
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill‑health, physical ill‑health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers – everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout. Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
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