Occupational Therapist - Mental Health Adult Eating Disorders NEW Oxford Posted today £38,682 -[...]

Oxford Health; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Oxford is hiring an Occupational Therapist committed to mental health. You will join a multidisciplinary team to provide high-standard assessments and treatments using evidence-based approaches. This role requires HCPC registration and experience with mental health service users. The organization offers extensive professional development opportunities, including tailored training and a supportive work environment. Candidates must demonstrate their suitability through a detailed application, emphasizing essential qualifications and experience.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to tailored learning and development

NHS Discounts

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy required.
• HCPC registration is a must.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard assessments and treatments for patients.
• Take responsibility for clinical caseload and care coordination.
• Collaboratively assess and develop needs-based treatment plans.

Skills

Experience working with mental health service users

Assessment and treatment knowledge

Caseload management

Clinical reasoning skills

Referral coordination

Education

Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy (Degree or equivalent)

HCPC registration

Job description

Job overview

Are you an Occupational Therapist committed to working in mental health and keen to use your professional skills to support individuals’ recovery?

Are you interested in being involved in service innovation and part of bringing change to local mental health delivery?

Cotswold House is a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit based at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, offering 14 inpatient beds and six day patients. We are looking for a qualified Occupational Therapist who is registered with HCPC to join our diverse, innovative and passionate multidisciplinary team on a full time basis.

With a reputation for excellence, our service provides a stepped-care model of care tailored to the individual’s needs for stabilisation and recovery.

Our service has a whole-team Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-ED) approach. We offer a range of CBT-ED programmes and evidence-based treatments to assist a patient’s return to independent living, including work, training, or study. You can draw upon your skills and models of formulating patient assessments and outcomes, as appropriate to the patient’s individualised formulation. Further training and CPD opportunities are available, such as PEACE Pathway, Masters Pathway, CBT-E Skills training and DBT Skills training to the successful applicant.

Main duties of the job

• To develop and provide a high standard of assessment and treatment for patients referred to the service.
• To take responsibility for an agreed clinical caseload, involving care coordination as appropriate.
• To collaboratively assess and provide needs-based treatment programmes and discharge plans for patients which complement the overall provision of service.
• To develop and maintain relevant therapeutic activities as appropriate to the patient group served, including opportunities for cognitive, creative, education, work, leisure, interpersonal and life skills. Wherever possible to ensure these interventions are evidence based.
• In consultation with users, carers and clinical teams to plan and provide appropriate therapy services for patients referred, within defined resources and using evidence-based practice.
• To act as a role model and coach to staff within the service and across multidisciplinary teams, students, patients and carers to ensure best practice is maintained.

We know that many roles for Occupational Therapists working in mental health do not provide the ability to draw on these core occupational therapy skills. We are keen to support Occupational Therapists who want to step into roles that use their profession specific skills, alongside their mental health practitioner skills. If you are interested but unconfident about this step or want to know more to find out if this is the role for you, please get in touch.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team.

Our values are: Caring, safe and excellent.

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

• Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy (Degree or equivalent).
• HCPC registration.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio.

Desirable criteria

• APPLE or equivalent student placement training.
• Sensory training.
• Trained in use of specific models/assessment relevant to the role.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post qualification experience.
• Experience of working with the mental health service users in a variety of settings.
• Experience working with a range of standardised and non-standardised OT assessments.
• Supervision of OT students and other professionals.
• Staff appraisal & development work.

Desirable criteria

• Service development work.
• Groupwork experience.
• Experience of undertaking audit work using outcome measures.

Knowledge/Skills Requirements

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of Adult Eating Disorder or Adult Mental Health inpatient or community services.
• Experience of caseload management / complex conditions & cases.
• Evidence based, reflective practice & clinical reasoning skills in assessment & treatment.
• Use of standardised Occupational Therapy assessment and outcome measures.
• Understanding experience of risk assessment and management.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge/experience to working with patients with neuro diversity / awareness of reasonable adjustments.
• Experience initiating and leading service improvement projects and audit.
• Awareness of National and local issues concerning this client group.

Documents to Download

JD/PS (PDF, 360.4KB)

Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Recruiter Contact Details

Name: Lara Freeman

Title: AHP Lead for mental health

Email: [e-mail]

Telephone: [phone]