Role Overview
The Advanced Occupational Therapist within the Norfolk Community Eating Disorder Service will provide inspirational specialist practice leadership within the team, conduct specialist assessments, offer advice and guidance, and ensure the implementation of psychological therapies and evidence‑based interventions for service users, families and carers.
Working Areas
The post will work across pathways including Intensive Community Support, ARFID, the Embodied Trauma pathway, and may introduce sensory integration modules.
Key Responsibilities
1. Ensure a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and therapeutic structure.
2. Take a lead role in ensuring a high standard of multidisciplinary care planning, be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process and ensure the team provides accurate and high‑quality patient records.
3. Maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence‑based interventions (CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, solution‑focused therapy), and by offering groups and activities in line with the recovery model.
4. Participate in research and audit in the clinical field.
5. Encourage and develop service‑user and carer involvement.
6. Support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints.
7. Undertake any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Service manager.
About the Service
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion. Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services in community and hospital settings, covering children, adults, older people, forensic & specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care & liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research & development.
Equality & Diversity
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including disabled people, members of ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
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