Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
Come and join the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team, there are 4 highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams supporting service users in the community across Birmingham. We hold true to our trust values of being ambitious, brave, and compassionate and are very committed to challenging individual as well as systemic barriers to mental wellness and social recovery.
This role will provide opportunities to develop generic care coordination, risk assessment, and groupwork skills alongside managing an Occupation Focused caseload, supporting the wider MDT with specialist interventions such as sensory assessment. You will be supported by an advanced Occupational Therapist for caseload supervision. The role is service wide, face paced and no day will be the same. You will have the opportunity to work with 16–35-year-olds and their families, for up to 3 years intensively, supporting them to understand their illness and personalising strategies which enable their recovery.
Main duties of the job
This is an amazing opportunity to join a well established, friendly multi disciplinary team using Occupational Formulations, Occupation focused interventions and sensory pathways to aid recovery. Members of our team have been supported to developing core OT skills as well as additional specialist modalities such as BFT, BUSS, ADOS, CBTp.
We work on an assertive outreach model so have a flexible, creative and proactive approach to engaging service users and promoting their recovery.
The core features of the EIP model are based on the NICE guidance for young people and adults for psychosis and schizophrenia (2014) and the new national standards for EIP (2016).
For further information please contact:
Lead Nurse
Site: Touch Base Pears
Selly Oak
Birmingham
0121 333-8342
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To be responsible for the management of a specialist clinical caseload, with guidance from a senior occupational therapist in FTB
• To ensure effective assessment and treatment of 16 to 35 year old’s, contributing these skills and knowledge to the MDT. Work in a client-centred way to help identify goals for intervention.
• To decide on appropriate occupational therapy intervention, being guided by principles and policies applicable to FTB trust employees.
• Assist in maintaining high professional standards by monitoring workload and treatment methods. Advise supervisor of unrealistic caseload levels
• To attend case reviews/conferences and other meetings relevant to the young person.
• To be aware of incident reporting procedures for child and adult safeguarding, asking for support from supervisor in order to report the incident.
• To plan and carry out group therapy and/or one to one sessions in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.
Communication
· To demonstrate effective communication skills with service users aged 16 to 35 yrs, carers, team members, colleagues and other agencies.
· Attend case reviews, case conferences and other relevant meetings.
· To keep line manager informed of developments within specialist area.
Documentation
· Provide written reports on all service users aged 16 to 35 yrs who have received Occupational Therapy, as well as maintaining verbal reporting.
· To maintain detailed and accurate case notes within multidisciplinary notes in accordance with professional standards
Service Development and Delivery
· To participate in the planning evaluation and audit of clinical practice, clinical pathways and protocols within your area.
· To participate in the delivery of the Occupational Therapy development plan.
· To undertake a wider role for the benefit of FTB and the OT service, as required.
· To contribute towards policy development within FTB.
· To contribute towards the Children, Young People and Families and Mental Health (RCOT) special interest group.
· To provide support for other FTB Occupational Therapists within the Trust and help facilitate good quality services which best meets the needs of children and young people
· Participate in the appraisal system both as an appraisee, and an appraiser of more junior staff
Person specification
* Dip COT/ BSc OT
* RCOT Membership
* HCPC Registration
* Membership of a specialist body i.e., the Sensory Network, CYPOT
Knowledge and Experience
* Previous experience working as an Occupational Therapist in Mental Health
* Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
* Knowledge of current best practice in mental health and occupational therapy
* Previous experience of working with Autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, severe mental health conditions
* Experience of working with age ranges 0-25 yr olds.
* Courses relevant to mental health, e.g. Sensory Integration, CBT, DBT.
* Specialist use of standardised assessment tools
* Community experience
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues
* Experience of assessment of risk, how to record it and communicate/escalate it appropriately.
* Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
Professional/Managerial Knowledge
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience working collaboratively with external partnership organisations e.g. education, social care, voluntary sector
* Leadership or management experience
* Fieldwork Educator Training/Teaching skills
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.
Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust. The Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your second week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, please ensure that you check if this role meets the eligibility criteria for sponsorship. Non UK /Republic of Ireland candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The minimum salary threshold for a Health and Social Care is £25,000 and for the Skilled Worker route is £38,700. If the starting salary for this role is below this, we will not be able to provide sponsorship.
Relocation expenses may be reimbursed subject to eligibility. The policy provides for reimbursement up to £8,000.
Please note - if you are applying for a role within Police custody, due to Police Vetting requirements you must have been a UK resident for the last years.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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