Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We are looking for two highly motivated and skilled Occupational therapists to help grow the occupational therapy team and to provide specialist interventions both individually and in group settings to women across Surrey.  The posts are for our NW team, based at Unither House in Chertsey and for our SW team, based at Berkeley House in Godalming.  You will link with your peer covering the East side of the service and have access to support from an OT assistant part time.

Job Overview:

• To assess and contribute to the diagnosis of individuals referred to the Perinatal service.
• To manage a caseload of women in the perinatal period with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs, providing interventions which support and promote improved mental and physical health for mothers, babies and their families.
• To evaluate the Occupational needs of individuals referred to the perinatal mental health service.
• To plan, implement and evaluate occupational therapy interventions
• To supervise and teach staff.

Main duties of the job

Do you aspire to change people’s lives for the better?

Would you like to work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally?

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.

As a member of the team, you would provide specialist OT and biopsychosocial assessments and interventions to women during pregnancy, delivery and up to 24 months postnatal. The post holder will develop strong links with the Parent Infant mental health service, Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, Midwifery, Adult mental health, Children’s services, and the voluntary sector. The team works closely with the mental health midwives and obstetricians from the 5 local maternity units. You will hold a caseload of women for a specified locality and participate in triaging new referrals on a rotational basis supported by experienced team members.

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, coordinated CPD programme including supervision, care group and trust wide training, core competence training, and annual conferences.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.