Senior OT - Enhanced Support Team - Adult LD Service
Closing date: 09 March 2026
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Enhanced Support Team alongside OT SLT and nursing colleagues. The role requires the post holder to visit patients with a learning disability in their homes and day opportunities, working with the wider team (Psychiatry Psychology and Assessment and Treatment Unit) to deliver care to prevent mental health hospital admission and ensure patients can be supported in their home.
The post holder will be required to work alongside OT, SLT and nursing colleagues in the Adult Learning Disability Team to provide an in-reach therapy programme to patients admitted to Byron Court (assessment and treatment unit) supporting the admission process, ongoing care plans during admissions as well as be an integral part of the discharge planning and ongoing community follow up.
The post holder will be required to work a shift pattern- 8am-4pm and 12-8pm. Working weekends and bank holidays on a rotation (9am 5pm).
Main duties of the job
* To be an active member of the Learning Disability Occupational Therapy Service and Community Learning Disability Team. To provide a person-centred Occupational Therapy Service for Adults with Learning Disabilities, based on the direction given in "Building the Right Support" and identified local need.
* To manage a defined caseload, using evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
* To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement.
* To provide leadership, supervision and day-to-day management for qualified staff and Technicians within the multi-disciplinary team.
About us
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
* Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
* Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
* If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
* We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
* 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
* Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
* Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
* £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
* Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
* Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
* Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
Job responsibilities
1. To comply with the COT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and national and local procedures.
2. To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of clients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
3. To demonstrate the ability to reflect on ethical issues and to provide guidance to junior staff as necessary.
4. To ensure all standards, policies and procedures are adhered to by the service.
5. To liaise closely with Senior Occupational Therapy staff on all matters relating the Occupational Therapy Service.
6. To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.
7. To regularly be responsible for the supervision of student Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors, Occupational Therapy Assistants and Basic Grade Occupational Therapists on rotation as delegated by senior staff.
8. To apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence and fitness to practise as a Senior OT.
9. To demonstrate on-going personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities, recording learning outcomes in a portfolio.
Person Specification
Education
* Bsc OT or DipCOT. State Registration with HPC
* Fieldwork Educators qualification within 12 months of appointment
* Documented evidence of continuing professional development
* Post Grad training in Posture Management, Positive Behaviour Management, Sensory Integration or Model of Creative Ability.
Knowledge
* Broad knowledge of current best practice in OT and mental health/learning disabilities
* Advanced/working knowledge of pathology and occupation in its widest sense, e.g. Mental Health, musculoskeletal, neurological, sensory impairment, the impact of the aging process on function
* Theories of group work.
* Models of supervision
* Risk assessment particularly and safeguarding process.
* Planning and co-ordination of treatment packages.
* Working knowledge of the prescription of aids and adaptations to independent living.
* Working knowledge of positive behaviour
* Specialist assessments. Model of Creative Ability.
Skills/Experience
* Supervision, advice and support of junior staff and/or students
* Community experience or working within mental health or learning disabilities, or social services provision.
* Post registration experience as an Occupational Therapist.
* Audit and research. Membership of Special Interest Group.
Personal Qualities
* Evidence of effective team player
* Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice.
* Willingness to work flexibly
* Membership of Professional Body
Additional Qualities
* Full UK Drivers Licence
* Fitness Analysis as appropriate
* Ability to Travel across Trust sites as required
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum plus HCA
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