Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Key Details
Location: Site: Ward S3, Address: Addenbrookes Hospital, Town: Cambridge, Postcode: CB2 0QQ, Major / Minor Region: Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern: Contract: Permanent, Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata, period: Yearly
Grade (Band): 7
Specialty: Occupational Therapy
Job Overview
Ward S3 is a specialist inpatient unit caring for those suffering from severe eating disorders. As a senior member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work directly with service users, carers and families to help manage their eating disorder and make positive changes to improve quality of life. The successful candidate will join an experienced and dedicated team of practitioners to promote and implement the role of occupational therapy within the service. The lead role is essential to ensure the provision of quality occupational therapy interventions including sensory and enabling approaches.
Responsibilities
* To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and contributing to the therapeutic structure
* To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high-quality patient records
* To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based interventions
* To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessments, advice and interventions using advanced, clinical reasoning skills. To provide support, education and professional leadership to non-registered staff and students.
* To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health. To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance, providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user's social and physical environments
* To maintain your own continuing professional development (CPD) by maintaining an awareness of innovations and developments, and to incorporate them as appropriate into your practice.
Education / Qualifications – Essential Criteria
* Degree and extensive clinical experience.
* Professional qualifications in Occupational Therapy eg BSc OT.
* Completion of Mentorship/Coaching Course or intention to complete.
* Evidence of Continuous professional development.
* Evidence of post‑graduate training relevant to the ongoing development of an experienced clinician.
Education / Qualifications – Desirable Criteria
* Leadership qualification.
* Qualification in evidence based psychological therapy relevant to eating disorders.
* Sensory Integration Practitioner Qualification.
Experience – Essential Criteria
* Experience of working alongside people with complex eating disorders.
* Experience of supervising staff, clinically.
* Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care pathway.
* Extensive experience of multidisciplinary team working.
* Extensive understanding of clinical governance.
* Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
* Extensive experience of working within the CPA process.
* Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies.
Experience – Desirable Criteria
* Experience of leading clinical staff or teams in practice improvement.
* Lived experience of mental health issues.
Knowledge & Skills – Essential Criteria
* Advanced Clinical Skills in the planning and delivery of evidence based interventions.
* Excellent ability to develop effective professional relationships with others, (individuals and groups).
* Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters.
* Skills in influencing, empowering, behaviours of others.
* The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations.
* Advanced specialist knowledge of clinical assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group.
Knowledge & Skills – Desirable Criteria
* Ability to use manual handling techniques.
Other – Essential Criteria
* Ability to travel across sites and transport patients into the community.
* Able to use IT equipment.
Applicant Requirements
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.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Additional Eligibility
In line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a Red List country. Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
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