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Eating Disorders Inpatient Occupational Therapist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£35,964 - £43,780 per annum inc HCAS
Profession
Occupational Therapist
Grade
Band 5
Deadline
14 May 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
01 May 2025

Job overview

We have an exciting role which has become available to work within our Inpatient Eating Disorder Service. We are looking for some who is strong in the ethos of Occupational Therapy and Recovery Focused. To support the adult and their families through this stage our their treatment journey.

We are looking for someone who wants to work alongside the Senior OT and as part of an integrated Multidisciplinary Team and be part of the delivery team in our therapeutic group  programme. As well as providing specialist clinical interventions to a caseload during their admission.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide the multidisciplinary team (MDT) with a specialist occupational therapy service and expertise for inpatients  who have eating disorders. This will include individual and group work, assessment, intervention and evaluation in accordance with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) Code of Ethics.
  • To manage a caseload of service users with a diagnosis of eating disorder health needs; using evidence-based and recovery-focussed principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.
  • To provide specialist occupational therapy interventions for individuals who have identified occupational performance needs within the team, ensuring that interventions amplify their self-management skills.
  • To integrate evidence-based practice and skilful use of assessments and interventions with personal recovery principles in order to improve service users’ quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
  • To contribute to service development of local and trust-wide Occupational Therapy services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To integrate evidence-based practice and skilful use of specialist assessments and interventions with personal recovery principles in order to improve service users’ quality of life and to support them to do the things they want and need to do and live the life they want and need to lead to build a healthier, more adaptive life beyond their illness/ mental health problems.
  • To work alongside the inpatient and day patient-based OTs to providing OT assessments and group and 1:1 interventions taking particular responsibility for service users with severe and enduring conditions plus a few recovery-focussed patients.
  • To facilitate recovery-focussed groups in the service and community-based settings to support service users to access helpful community resources such as the CNWL Recovery College, voluntary and mainstream agencies.
  • To liaise with OT colleagues to facilitate a smooth and co-ordinated transitioning across the service.
  • To supervise other such as Activity Co-Ordinator, Peer Support Worker, Outreach Worker
  • To work flexibly on a needs-led basis which may include providing occasional evening work and being able to work one weekend per month.