I'm James, Team Manager for Secure CAMHS, looking for a dedicated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team at Aldine House SCH. We operate within a trauma-informed framework to support young people with complex needs, and this role is pivotal in shaping our therapeutic environment.
In this exciting position, you will develop and implement the OT process and pathway within the home. You will manage a caseload focused on individual assessment and intervention, evaluating mental health and risk while building strong therapeutic relationships. Your mission is to assess occupational performance, provide holistic interventions that promote independence, skill development, and engagement in truly meaningful activities.
Collaboration is key. You will provide expert consultation and liaison with partner agencies to ensure robust, holistic care plans. Working within a multi-disciplinary team, you will support the Mental Health Practitioners to ensure service delivery. You will benefit from a supportive leadership team and regular clinical supervision under a professional structure.
We are committed to your growth, offering access to professional networks, specialist training, and clear career progression. You will have the opportunity to engage in CPD tailored to your interests; we specifically seek candidates with Sensory Integration/Sensory awareness training. Aldine house, a 10-bedded secure children’s home, for young people aged 10-18, accommodated for their own welfare.
This role is a unique opportunity to drive change across a setting that provides care for the most disenfranchised young people in the UK. The role links closely with Residential Support Workers who provide care for the young people residing within the home. Highlighting the importance of integration across the service, with this role being vital in supporting and educating other team members on trauma experienced by our young people. You will use your professional specific skills to identify barriers to engagement in meaningful and purposeful occupation and develop appropriate plans to facilitate engagement and inclusion.
The role requires a values‑led practitioner, who is truly curious and motivated to work across systemic barriers through inter‑agency working.
Part of your role will be to offer screening assessments for young people who have arrived at the home, and you will attend a variety of meetings held by the home regarding the young people.
You will provide person‑centred holistic assessment of their mental health needs and risk, in addition your expertise will feed into the neurodevelopmental pathway by way of supporting reports, OT screening checklists and being part of consensus meetings. You will be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
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