Job summary
Secondment Opportunity: Band 7 Occupational Therapist
Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist looking to broaden your experience and take on a fresh challenge? We are delighted to offer a Band 7 Occupational Therapist secondment within our friendly, supportive Inpatient AHP team at Brooklands Hospital.
Working alongside well-established multidisciplinary teams--including AHPs, Psychologists, nursing, and medical colleagues--you will have the opportunity to further develop your leadership skills and gain valuable experience in service development. You will continue to deliver high-quality, person-centred Occupational Therapy to a complex, varied, and often challenging client group, making a meaningful difference to patient outcomes.
You will be well supported by experienced colleagues, with access to peer supervision, regular clinical supervision, and ongoing opportunities for CPD and networking. In addition, further training and development opportunities are available through the Trust's LBR fund, supporting you to enhance your knowledge, skills, and confidence in working with this specialist client group.
This secondment offers an excellent opportunity to grow professionally within a collaborative and encouraging environment while gaining valuable Band 7 experience.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a Therapy Team providing Occupational Therapy input into Assessment and Treatment Services and Forensic Learning Disability Services.
To hold a clinical caseload and influence the Occupational Therapy service, delivery and development of the Therapy service at Brooklands. This includes the supervision of junior and support staff as relevant.
To lead on Occupational Therapy service developments in line with Trust priorities and timescales, as agreed, and supervise clinical practice as relevant.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To carry a clinical caseload of individuals including those with complex occupational therapy difficulties.
To interpret referrals, conduct initial interviews; assess the capacities and limitations of the patient/client.
To plan and implement appropriate treatment plans involving patients/clients/relatives/carers and multidisciplinary colleagues as appropriate. Treatment may be delivered at the base or in a relevant community setting.
One of many contributing as part of the leadership team ensuring teams objectives are in line with the overall objectives of the inpatient therapy team.
To lead the Occupational Therapy team in the inpatient services and ensure the teams objectives are in line with the overall objectives of the inpatient therapy team.
To coordinate the delivery of Occupational Therapy across inpatient services and provide clinical and managerial supervision to more junior members of the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To carry a clinical caseload of individuals including those with complex occupational therapy difficulties.
To interpret referrals, conduct initial interviews; assess the capacities and limitations of the patient/client.
To plan and implement appropriate treatment plans involving patients/clients/relatives/carers and multidisciplinary colleagues as appropriate. Treatment may be delivered at the base or in a relevant community setting.
One of many contributing as part of the leadership team ensuring teams objectives are in line with the overall objectives of the inpatient therapy team.
To lead the Occupational Therapy team in the inpatient services and ensure the teams objectives are in line with the overall objectives of the inpatient therapy team.
To coordinate the delivery of Occupational Therapy across inpatient services and provide clinical and managerial supervision to more junior members of the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Have one (or more) of the following core professions: PgD or BSC in Occupational Therapy
- Current state registration with Health Professional Council without restriction
- Fieldwork Educators Course (or be prepared to undertake this)
- Training in Sensory Integration Therapy (or be prepared to undertake this)
- Significant post graduate training in working with adults with learning disabilities
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- An understanding of the specific contribution of Occupational Therapists in Learning Disability and Mental Health Services
- Ability to demonstrate team building, leadership and organisational skills
- Demonstrates an understanding and ability to practice in a person centred, recovery focussed way
- Knowledge in developing and delivering groups within mental health/learning disability services
- Demonstrate the application of sensory integration therapy to Learning Disability or Mental Health
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of experience in working in Learning Disability and/or Mental Health services
- Experience in applied sensory integration therapy
- Significant experience in working in forensic/CAMHS/acute mental health services
- Evidence of effective caseload management
- Experience of supervising qualified and/or unqualified staff
- Experience of involvement in service evaluation and audit
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Have one (or more) of the following core professions: PgD or BSC in Occupational Therapy
- Current state registration with Health Professional Council without restriction
- Fieldwork Educators Course (or be prepared to undertake this)
- Training in Sensory Integration Therapy (or be prepared to undertake this)
- Significant post graduate training in working with adults with learning disabilities
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- An understanding of the specific contribution of Occupational Therapists in Learning Disability and Mental Health Services
- Ability to demonstrate team building, leadership and organisational skills
- Demonstrates an understanding and ability to practice in a person centred, recovery focussed way
- Knowledge in developing and delivering groups within mental health/learning disability services
- Demonstrate the application of sensory integration therapy to Learning Disability or Mental Health
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of experience in working in Learning Disability and/or Mental Health services
- Experience in applied sensory integration therapy
- Significant experience in working in forensic/CAMHS/acute mental health services
- Evidence of effective caseload management
- Experience of supervising qualified and/or unqualified staff
- Experience of involvement in service evaluation and audit
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
