Overview
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to lead with purpose and compassion? Join our small, friendly and highly supportive multidisciplinary team in our Day Unit for Eating Disorders, where collaboration and innovation truly make a difference. As the Head OT, you'll take a leading role in assessing and treating the complex occupational needs of adults living with the challenges of moderate to severe eating disorders. You will bring your clinical expertise, creativity and leadership to shape recovery-focused interventions that help individuals rebuild independence, meaning and quality of life. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service development, mentor and supervise OTATP, and work alongside passionate colleagues who value holistic care and teamwork. If you are driven, compassionate about eating disorders and ready to take the next step in your OT career, we would love to hear from you., A highly motivated and skilled Head Occupational Therapist to lead and coordinate the OT component of patient care within the day unit, providing specialist assessment and evidence based treatment for adults with moderate to severe eating disorders
Key Responsibilities
* To manage a caseload of clients within the day unit, with highly complex OT needs, using evidence based/client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions on the Day Unit and within the local community.
* To apply in depth knowledge of the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) and other standardised assessment approaches relevant to the clinical setting.
* Following specialist assessment, to undertake case formulation to highlight occupational strengths and limitations and to inform the intervention plan moving forward.
* To provide highly specialist Occupational Therapy advice, intervention and support to service users and their carers.
* To work and liaise with other statutory and non-statutory service providers involved in service user care and treatment.
* To provide daily leadership to the OTATP and other junior staff, through supervision, training and appraisal.
* Work alongside the Team Leader and under the management of the Operational Manager to develop the day unit service.
* To maintain high standards of record keeping, ensuring that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standard.
* To demonstrate leadership skills through the management of designated projects including the day unit.
* To deputise for the day unit Team Leader as required.
* To work as part of the Divisional AHP leadership team actively contributing towards Divisional and Trust AHP objectives.
Qualifications and Experience
* BSc/MSc/PG Dip Occupational Therapy
* HCPC registration
* Evidence of clinical post registration training
* Proficient use of Microsoft Office and associated packages
* Practice Placement qualification/APPLE accreditation, Membership of RCOT, including specialist section
* Solution Focussed Brief Therapy Training/CBT/MANTRA, Significant post qualification in a clinical mental health setting: and/or demonstrable experience highly related to the clinical field - Eating Disorders
* Applied experience of providing both individual and group work interventions
* Highly Specialist knowledge and experience of using and applying the Model of Human Occupation assessment tools, or others appropriate to area
* Experience of other specialist Occupational Therapy assessment tools, e.g. AMPS, Pool Activity Levels
* Applied knowledge of Recovery principles and how these relate to OT
* Documented evidence of continuing professional development
* Experience in providing advice, support and clinical supervision to junior staff and/or students
* Evidence of service development activities
* Experience in research or audit
Desirable Criteria
* Previous experience of having worked at Band 7 level
* Involvement in recruiting staff, Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We would encourage all applicants to review the criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission. Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing and work‑life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values‑driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional.
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