Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The post holder may be required to work later in the day to accommodate service delivery after educational hours.)
- Job ref
- 364-A-9080
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The St Aubyn Centre
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
Band 6
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) at EPUT.
The post holder will be based at St Aubyn's Centre in Colchester ( Longview and Larkwood wards) and Rochford Hospital (Poplar Ward), in Rochford, near Southend on Sea, supporting the delivery of Occupational Therapy assessments and intervention, supporting band 5 Occupational Therapists, Apprentice and Activity Coordinators.
We provide an integrated service, with an in-depth, holistic assessment of the psychological, social and physical needs of each referred young person. An assessment is undertaken for all our young people, before a decision is taken about further in-patient treatment or discharge to appropriate care providers.
We place a strong emphasis on the multi-disciplinary team approach and young people's care plans and views agreed daily with the input of all team members
- Ward Doctors
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Nurses
- Support Workers
- Psychologists
- Family Therapist
- Teachers/Education
Main duties of the job
1. To undertake occupational therapy assessments for all young people who are under the care of Longview, Larkwood and Poplar ward, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling them in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
2. To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.
3. To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.
4. To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with patients and their carers.
5. To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.
6. To undertake manual handling assessments ensuring other professionals and carers are aware of manual handling needs.
7. To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower patients and facilitate optimal functional performance.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will contribute to the comprehensive assessment and treatment of service users in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
You will provide effective, tailored, evidence based occupational therapy to service users who are between 13-18 years of age, using goal setting and interventions focused on re-engagement in self-care, productivity and leisure activities, and promoting health, wellbeing and independence.
You will be expected to identify and use relevant occupational therapy standardised assessments and outcomes. You will also exchange complex sensitive information with service users and assess their response to activities in accordance with agreed models of practice. You will also provide occupational therapy advice to other disciplines.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bsc OT or DipCOT. State Registration with HPC
- Fieldwork Educators qualification within 12 months of appointment
- Documented evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Post Grad training in specialist assessments
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in OT and mental health
- Advanced/working knowledge of pathology and occupation in its widest sense, e.g. Mental Health, musculoskeletal, neurological, sensory impairment, the impact of the aging process on function
- Theories of group work.
- Risk assessment particularly and safeguarding process.
- Models of supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of the prescription of aids and adaptations to independent living.
- Specialist assessments. Model of Creative Ability.
Skills/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience as an Occupational Therapist. Supervision, advice and support of junior staff and/or students
- Experience or working within mental health or learning disabilities, or social services provision.
- Utilisation of appropriate assessment techniques to assess individual’s abilities in relation to their desired goals in everyday activities including mobility
- Application of advanced/working knowledge in order to plan and achieve realistic outcomes for individuals and groups – physical and mental health.
- Work with and through others to achieve environmental modifications that empower individuals and carers to achieve independence. Integrate theory and practice and demonstrate creative problem-solving processes.
- Critically reflect on and use evidence in order to develop best practice.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice.
- Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice.
- Willingness to work flexibly
Desirable criteria
- Membership of Professional Body
Additonal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Fitness Analysis as appropriate
- Flexible approach
- Full UK Drivers Licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Robertson
- Job title
- Interim Head of AHP's for Specialist Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976710589
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