Occupational Therapist in Early Intervention for Psychosis

Job overview

Salford Early Intervention Team are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our successful, friendly, and supportive team.

The Early Intervention Team offers great opportunities to continue your career progression with regular supervision, CPD sessions and training. We are focused on staff wellbeing, offering regular clinical and line management supervision, and with a dedicated staff wellbeing lead.

We are a committed integrated service that strives to provide quality, recovery-based support to people experiencing a first episode of psychosis within the Salford area. The successful candidate will have 50% of their time protected to work as an occupational therapist, carrying out functional assessments and interventions to enable service user’s recovery. The other 50% of the time, the candidate will be acting as a care coordinator for a reduced caseload of service users who predominantly have occupational therapy needs. You will be supported to maintain an occupational focus in your work alongside a care coordination role for which risk assessment and risk management are essential requirements. We have a senior practitioner for OT within the team and you will work closely with them, as well as working with the support workers and carer support worker to deliver interventions, groups and quality-of-life improving care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will undertake a split care coordinator/occupational therapist position in a busy specialist EIT team. The post holder will also support the day to day functions of the service by participating in the duty and assessment rota and supporting the planning and delivery of groups and activities for service users.

The post holder will carry out evidence based occupational assessments and write up reports of a high standard, which highlight how biological sociological and psychological factors interact to create obstacles to the satisfactory participation of an individual service user in valued social roles. From the assessment and formulation, the post holder will make recommendations to and access support from appropriate professionals and agencies or deliver Occupational Therapy interventions with the aim of gaining or restoring a balance of social roles and routines for the individual. This work will take place with the support and supervision of the EIT senior practitioner for OT.

Applications from newly qualified and band 5 Occupational Therapists may be considered if no suitable band 6 applications are received. The band 5 post would not carry a care coordination caseload until successful completion of a preceptorship.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a band 6, the post holder will be expected to participate in the team assessment and duty rotas to support the safe and effective operations of the service.

Regular clinical supervision will be offered and encouraged and there is also the opportunity to attend and engage in regular Salford monthly community OT meetings and a bi-monthly Allied Health Professionals CPD meeting.

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)