Occupational Therapist Advanced Practitioner

Job overview

Ward S3 is a specialist inptaient unit caring for those suffering from severe eating disorders. As a senior member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work directly with service users, carers and families to help manage their eating disorder and make positive changes to improve quality of life.

The successful candidate will join an experienced and dedicated team of practitioners to promote and implement the role of occupational therapy within the service. The lead role is essential to ensure the provision of quality occupational therapy interventions including sensory and enabling approaches.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have proven clinical skills in working with service users with complex mental and phsyical needs. They will be responsible for day-to-day delivery of OT  within ward S3, including the management and supervison of 2 band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistants. The role requires excellent planning and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise effectively.

The post holder will lead on maintaining effectiveness ensuring that high quality practice is delivered that produces meaningful and demonstrable outcomes, based on best evidence and identifying opportunities for development.

The role will have the opportunity to attend an OT mental health strategy forum and OT Leads meeting and receive professional supervision from a directorate AHP Lead.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and contributing to the therapeutic structure
• To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high-quality patient records
• To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based interventions
• To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessments, advice and interventions using advanced, clinical reasoning skills.To provide support, education and professional leadership to non-registered staff and students.
• To promote the expansion of occupational therapy roles and perspectives and raise awareness of the relationship between occupation and health.To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance, providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user's social and physical environments
• To maintain your own continuing professional development (CPD) by maintaining an awareness of innovations and developments, and to incorporate them as appropriate into your practice.