Job summary
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 East Suffolk base in Wickham Market. Previous experience of working with Psychosis within a community setting would be advantageous but not essential.
Application as maybe submitted by Band 5 AfC OT with mental health experience would be considered.
Main duties of the job
EIP Suffolk use 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. The successful applicant will be expected to be familiar with this model and work towards a level of confidence enabling them to support new Band 5s or OT students on placement creating a supportive environment to encourage learning and progression.
As a practitioner you will be able to demonstrate a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach to working with our service users and their families. The role includes multi-agency working alongside the family, local acute care services, primary care sector, social care, education, employment and voluntary services to ensure the service users needs are best met.
As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments of individuals who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, working collaboratively with their families and other supporting agencies to effectively address needs utilising Care Programme Approach to manage a community caseload. Your role would hold protected time to offer Occupational Therapy assessment and care planning across the East clinical caseload in addition to case management of your own small caseload.
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
EIP Suffolk offer therapeutic intervention via 1:1 and group sessions.
Working alongside our Senior Occupational Therapist based in West Suffolk, your role would hold a joint lead responsibility for our Social Recovery focused groupwork programme and continue to develop our service OT model countywide.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Job description
Job responsibilities
EIP Suffolk offer therapeutic intervention via 1:1 and group sessions.
Working alongside our Senior Occupational Therapist based in West Suffolk, your role would hold a joint lead responsibility for our Social Recovery focused groupwork programme and continue to develop our service OT model countywide.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Clinical supervisor qualification or willing to work towards it.
Desirable
- Ongoing professional development
- Relevant post-graduate training courses
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Have significant post registration experience
- Effective risk assessment and risk management experience
- Working in a team delivering person centred treatment packages
- Supervision of junior OT staff / OT students
Desirable
- Delivering group-based interventions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Clinical supervisor qualification or willing to work towards it.
Desirable
- Ongoing professional development
- Relevant post-graduate training courses
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Have significant post registration experience
- Effective risk assessment and risk management experience
- Working in a team delivering person centred treatment packages
- Supervision of junior OT staff / OT students
Desirable
- Delivering group-based interventions.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
