Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership of the Cambridge Locality Team as an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist. You will join a service supporting working-age adults who have severe affective and psychotic disorders. The team offers care-coordination, a daily duty service, psychiatric assessments, medication reviews, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, family work & a wide variety of therapeutic interventions. Recovery principles are embedded at the core of the locality teams and we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life. You will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines and you will need to hold a full UK driving licence.
Responsibilities
* Provide clinical leadership to the OT pathway within the service, including oversight of OT functional assessment, sensory integration, reablement and vocational pathway.
* Offer OT training and development to OT workforce, students and the wider team.
* Manage a small caseload of clients with OT needs and undertake case management/lead professional as needed.
* Provide clinical leadership within a designated multidisciplinary meeting to support effective caseload management.
* Chair multidisciplinary meetings as needed to ensure optimal clinical decision making.
* Provide comprehensive OT assessments for service users.
* Receive operational supervision from the Service Manager or equivalent.
* Establish professional links with other care groups and professionals supporting the recovery of patients.
* Work in partnership with other agencies to gain the best person-centred outcome for the individual.
* Communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and individual client.
* Support clinicians in managing complex cases, guide discharge planning, and promote smooth clinical throughput.
* Foster strong interfaces with other teams and demonstrate confident leadership by chairing large, multi-agency meetings.
* Lead on audits and quality improvement initiatives and deliver clinical supervision, conduct staff appraisals, and foster professional development within the team.
* Contribute to ensuring the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines.
Qualifications/Requirements
* Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist with the ability to provide clinical leadership and management within an OT service.
* Full UK driving licence and ability to travel independently around the county to meet service needs.
About CPFT and Equal Opportunity
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities. The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Additional Information
CPFT is dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver NHS services outside of hospital and in the community across physical, mental health and specialist services, including: integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people; specialist mental health and learning disability services; Children and young people’s mental health services; Children’s community services in Peterborough; Social care; Ground-breaking research. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, especially under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For more information about equality, diversity and inclusion, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT may request temporary staffing through Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You may be asked at interview about registration with TSS. In line with WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020, CPFT currently cannot accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a red list country. Applicants may be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority for each country where they have resided for 12 months or more, 10 years before visa application, when aged 18 or over. If successful at interview, you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (where appropriate), references and Occupational Health. Please bring identity documents to your interview; a list of required documents will be attached to your invitation. All communications will be sent via TRAC Systems, and by applying you agree to CPFT transferring information contained in this application to TRAC and, if offered, into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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