Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 28th March 2025
Closing date: 21st April 2025
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Job Description:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Advanced Occupational Therapist to lead a new Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adults with an Eating Disorder. This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promote recovery from an Eating Disorder.
Your clinical skills will involve working with severe/complex individuals with an Eating Disorder and have an excellent understanding of occupationally focused evidence-based assessments and skills to provide therapeutic interventions in a community setting.
Your managerial skills will require you to professionally lead and manage the new team, providing supervision, guidance, support, and structure.
Main duties of the job
You will be working as part of a small team of professionals providing assessment, treatment, and interventions to adults with an Eating Disorder. Individuals who will be accessing the service will be from Devon and Cornwall, and interventions are aimed at preventing an admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and supporting early discharge in a stepped-down way from a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit back into the Community. The Intensive Home Treatment Team will be reviewed and monitored as a new service with a formal evaluation taking place at the end of the 12-month period. We hope that individuals feel well supported, learn new skills, and can make positive changes towards recovery.
As a new service, we will need the candidate to be creative, work well with others, and have the capacity to offer lots of energy, ideas, and leadership.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high-quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust’s core values. These include attributes such as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving the lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile, making time for people, challenging ourselves & others, and being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity, or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job responsibilities
The Advanced Occupational Therapist within the Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adults with an Eating Disorder will be the lead practitioner with assessment, formulation, and coordinating the delivery of care. They will be coordinating staff around the locality and supporting with the delivery of the interventions offered. They will also provide training and support to the team in relation to sensory integration within the pathway of care.
Person Specification
Skills and Ability
* Please see Personal specification for full details
Qualifications
* Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
* Sensory integration practitioner
* Highly developed knowledge of theory and practice of Occupational Therapy with people with an Eating Disorder
* Please see person specification for full list of essential and desirable criteria.
Experience
* Significant specialised experience working with people with severe/complex Eating Disorders and additional sensory/health needs
* Experience in the application of Occupational Therapy models to service users with complex needs
* Significant experience working in community settings in multi-disciplinary teams
* Ability to manage a complex caseload and competing priorities
* Please see Personal specification for full details
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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