Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-9736
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lexden Hospital
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
The post holder will provide Occupational Therapy input into the specialist learning disability services based in North East Essex with support from the Specialist and Highly specialist OTs. They will provide specialist interventions to service users with a learning disability. The postholder will be well supported by the wider Occupational Therapy team based within learning disability services in Essex.
Main duties of the job
- With support from the Highly Specialist/Specialist Occupational Therapists and the wider team, manage a caseload of clients with complex OT needs, using evidence based/client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in clinic and community settings and on home visits.
- To provide leadership for identified staff, through supervision and appraisal
- To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of OT services, holding responsibility for defined projects where appropriate
- To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement
- To maintain clinical records
- To develop skills and knowledge
- To complete the Occupational Therapy Preceptorship programme (as appropriate)
- To participate in the trust wide development CPD programme
- To attend and participate in the trust wide band 5 peer support sessions.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· With guidance from the Highly Specialist and Specialist OTs, to select and apply Occupational Therapy assessments for a designated caseload, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling the client in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
· To work using a problem-solving approach to reduce risk at home.
· To work with clients to identify OT goals as part of the overall care plan.
· To plan and implement individual interventions, in collaboration with the client, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
· To demonstrate and apply a broad level of understanding of the effect of disability and recommend adaptations to the client’s physical and social environment.
· To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment for clients with multiple needs in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
· To complete competencies programme as appropriate.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Diploma / degree in OT
- State registration with HCPC
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- To have an understanding of the impacts of having a Learning Disability and/or Mental Health condition
- Completion of Preceptorship at Band 5 level – or willing to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Membership of RCOT
- Practice Placement Educators training/ qualification
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Broad base of clinical experience
- Sensory Processing training/qualification
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems/learning disability
Desirable criteria
- Experience at having worked in a similar field at Band 5 level
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Experience in a range of clinical settings with experience of providing both individual and group Job Description and Person Specification. Occupational Therapy. August 2012 work
- Experience in providing advice, support and clinical supervision to junior staff and/or students
- Knowledge and experience of using the Model of Human Occupation and MoHO assessment tools
- Knowledge and experience of using the Model of Human Occupation and MoHO assessment tools with the LD population
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Training and facilitation skills
- Experience in delivering presentations and/or active part in learning opportunities, e.g. leading professional development sessions
- Supervisory skills
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Application of the OT process with designated client group
- Planning and co-ordination of treatment packages
- Ability to use problem solving techniques
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues.
Desirable criteria
- The ability to demonstrate creative practice
- Experience of audits/evaluations of interventions and implementation of any subsequent changes to practice.
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in OT and mental health/learning disability
- Applied knowledge of mental health legislation including CPA and risk assessment and management
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
- Katherine McSweeney
- Job title
- Advanced Practitioner in Occupational Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816 109757
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