Job summary
- Main area
- OT
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 364-A-9149
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brockfield House,
- Town
- Runwell, Wickford
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
Band 7
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 successful candidate will work as a clinical lead OT within Secure Services -( medium and low secure wards) based at Brockfield House, but will be expected to visits wards across the trust sites.
The post holder will have direct responsibility for the Occupational Therapy team, consisting of OT's OTA's Activity Coordinators, Employment, Education Coordinator and Physical Health and Wellbeing Coordinator .
The role will be they supporting the delivery of OT services within the wider team as part of the multi-disciplinary team within secure services.
The post holder will have the opportunity to utilise clinical skills as they contribute directly with the management of people with complex care needs, and leadership skills providing supervision and shaping the delivery of services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will also work alongside the Occupational Therapy team within the forensic inpatient setting, taking the lead on assessments and intervention planning as well as supporting transition/discharge planning and recovery focused pathways
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 post holder will work closely with the Head of Allied Health Professionals for Specialist Services to lead on the provision and delivery of evidence based Occupational Therapy interventions within Secure Services across Essex Partnership University NHS Trust (EPUT).
The post holder will work as a senior member of the multidisciplinary clinical team responsible for the assessment and provision of specialist bio-psycho-social interventions of service users with serious mental illness (SMI) and forensic histories, using the VdT Model of Creative Ability and other recovery focussed interventions. In addition to this, the post holder will oversee Occupational Therapy provision and hold a complex caseload, providing specialist Occupational Therapy input.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent level of specialist knowledge
- HCPC Registration
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development.
- Postgraduate training in Occupational Therapy
Desirable criteria
- Additional relevant qualifications, e.g. Sensory Integration, counselling, CBT, etc.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In-depth knowledge of mental health conditions and treatment available including a range of evidence based treatment techniques
- Understanding of recovery process Knowledge of Occupational Therapy Models of Practice Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to mental health
- Knowledge of Safeguarding issues and child protection requirements/legislation and how these apply to the role
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of VdTMoCA
- Awareness of current legislation affecting Mental Health Services.
- Understanding of the Mental Health Act
Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working in Mental Health and/or a Forensic setting
- Significant experience of using high quality and culturally sensitive Occupational Therapy Assessment and treatment that is evidence based and occupation based
- Group-work skills. Writing group protocols, group planning, group evaluation
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a multi- disciplinary team.
- Experience of supervision of staff and students
- Clinical risk assessment and management
- Experience of supervision of staff and students
Desirable criteria
- Specialist assessment or intervention skills and training.
- Ability to assess and prescribe adaptive equipment to support independent living.
- Presenting information to large groups or external bodies
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to balance competing priorities and multi-task.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to contain and hold the stress of others.
- Appreciation of the many aspects of diversity amongst people who work within and use services, and of how structural inequalities affect life experiences, with the ability to adapt your own practice so as to challenge discrimination, reduce inequalities, and promote inclusion.
- Shares the Trust’s Beliefs and models this in their attitude and behaviour:
Additional Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently across sites as required
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Demonstrate appropriate use of initiative
- Able to demonstrate a strong professional identity
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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