Job summary
- Main area
- OT
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday)
- Job ref
- 364-A-9183
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pride House
- Town
- Laindon Essex
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum plus HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2025 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
The Adult Learning Disability Team is excited to offer this opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Community Specialist Health Team to work alongside Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Behaviour Therapist, Psychologists, LD Nurses and Psychiatry.
This specialist service works with people with a learning disability within their own homes and/ or day opportunities; working alongside families, carers and care providers.
The post holder will be required to travel to visits and clinic appointments as well as work across trust bases.
Main duties of the job
1. To comply with the COT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and national and local procedures.
2. To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of clients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
3. To demonstrate the ability to reflect on ethical issues and to provide guidance to junior staff as necessary.
4. To ensure all standards, policies and procedures are adhered to by the service.
5. To liaise closely with Senior Occupational Therapy staff on all matters relating the Occupational Therapy Service.
6. To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.
7. To regularly be responsible for the supervision of student Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors, Occupational Therapy Assistants and Basic Grade Occupational Therapists on rotation as delegated by senior staff.
8. To apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence and fitness to practise as a Senior OT.
9. To demonstrate on-going personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities, recording learning outcomes in a portfolio.
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
- To be an active member of the Learning Disability Occupational Therapy Service and Community Learning Disability Team. To provide a person-centred Occupational Therapy Service for Adults with Learning Disabilities.
- To manage a defined caseload, using evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement.
- To provide leadership, supervision and day-to-day management for qualified staff and Technicians within the multi-disciplinary team.
Person specification
Education
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 Posture Management, Positive Behaviour Management, Sensory Integration or Model of Creative Ability.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in OT and mental health/learning disabilities.
- Appropriate assessment techniques
- 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.
- Planning and co-ordination of treatment packages
- Risk assessment particularly and safeguarding process.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of the prescription of aids and adaptations to independent living.
- Specialist assessments. Model of Creative Ability.
- Working knowledge of positive behaviour
Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience as an Occupational Therapist. Supervision, advice and support of junior staff and/or students
- Community experience or working within mental health or learning disabilities, or social services provision
- Working knowledge of other specialist techniques. Manual Handling assessments
- Utilisation of appropriate assessment techniques to assess individual’s abilities in relation to their desired goals in everyday activities including mobility.
- Apply a variety of treatment modalities in group and one to one format.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Strong service user orientation
- Able to cope with change
- Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice
- Willingness to work flexibly.
Desirable criteria
- Membership of Professional Body
Additional Qualities
Essential criteria
- Current driving licence
- Ability to travel across sites and across Trust boundaries to attend meetings, etc.
- Evidence of a planned approach to work/home life balance.
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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