Main area Early Intervention in Psychosis Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: 1 year post registration experience required as minimum. Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm) Job ref 246-WSU7052122
Site S Block Town Bury St. Edmunds Salary £37,338 - £44,962 gross per annum/ Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 31/03/2025 23:59
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require.
Job overview
Are you a compassionate, dedicated and motivated Occupational Therapist who holds a current professional registration and always puts people at the heart of everything you do?
EIP Suffolk is currently able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our highly skilled and experienced team delivering bespoke and timely interventions to our service users, aged 14 – 65 years, and their families in line with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Quality Standards for Early Intervention Services.
We are currently looking to recruit a full time Band 6 AfC Senior Occupational Therapist to our West Suffolk base in Bury St Edmunds. Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.
EIP Suffolk offers regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice both as 1:1 and group sessions. We will offer you a full EIP induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.
Application as maybe submitted by Band 5 AfC OT with mental health experience would be considered.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to be familiar with the Model of Human Occupation and associated assessments, this is a widely adopted model across the trust and will assist with informing your interventions for both your own assigned caseload and across the base MDT. Responsibilities would include:
* Managing a caseload of individuals experiencing their First Episode of Psychosis and the provision of mental health care services in line with NICE guidelines / quality standards for EIS.
* Provide planned care/risk assessment / screening for patients within their care plan and ongoing evaluation of patients’ needs via caseload management/supervision.
* Initiate and attend patient centred reviews, case conferences and other meetings as required.
* To advise the Responsible Medical Officer(s) and/or health and social care professional of any change in the patients’ conditions and / or circumstances.
* To work within the MDT offering specialist OT advice, screening and / assessment and to form working partnerships with other care providers.
* To ensure service users/carer(s) are enabled and empowered to make informed decisions about their care and delivery of that care, working with agencies from within and outside the MDT.
* To provide caseload management supervision to junior staff under direction and supervision of the Clinical Team Leader.
* Assist with the supervision of peers if requested.
* To enable service users to gain and maintain independence, always promoting hope and reducing potential stigma.
* To lead on Social Recovery groupwork programme.
* Identifying personal learning and training needs through KSF, appraisal and personal development plans on an annual basis.
* Undertake the supervision of students that will be undertaking placements within the Team.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
Experience
* Effective risk assessment and risk management experience
* Supervision of junior OT staff / OT students
* Delivering group-based interventions.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
Name Michael Harnett Job title Clinical Team Leader Email address michael.harnett@nsft.nhs.uk Telephone number 01284 719780 Additional information
Our West Suffolk Locality AHP Lead, Louise Jordan would be happy to be contacted with any queries :
louise.jordan@nsft.nhs.uk
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