Occupational Therapist

Job overview

The post holder will be required to work within the new eating disorder day treatment service.

The post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of the service to individual clients and their families and carers via a range of evidence-based interventions. They will be expected to provide cover for peers across the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, planned or unplanned as required.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure Occupational Therapy makes a significant and specialist contribution in the eating disorder day treatment service.
• Assess service users using a variety of assessment tools, specialised observational and communication skills.
• To provide a learning environment for staff and students.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Apply enhanced clinical knowledge and skills to the work environment.
• Identify and verify factors including contra-indications apparent from patient history.
• To deliver specific interventions in line with the treatment pathway, including complex clients.
• To deliver professional evidence-based OT assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and evaluation of service users’ needs.
• To deliver Occupational Therapy through patient engagement in meaningful activity in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure, utilising individual or group work.
• Evaluate potential efficacy of planned intervention, given all available data.
• Liaise with colleagues and other clinicians to clarify and resolve any discrepancies or difficulties in the evaluation of patient data.
• Generate options including modification or alternatives to planned intervention to meet clinical need as appropriate.
• Verify suitability and potential effectiveness of planned intervention or suggested alternatives.
• Agree course of action with those responsible for performing the intervention.
• Document key points of agreement, including specific factors which influenced advice and recommendations.
• Assess and plan care delivery for individual service users within the framework of the Care Programme Approach / keyworker responsibilities.
• To facilitate transfer between services, signpost and/ or discharge as appropriate.
• To routinely enquire, identify and report through the appropriate procedures any safeguarding issues.
• To report safeguarding issues that are identified via others.
• To perform the role of investigator for matters of safeguarding as directed by the safeguarding manager
• Work in partnership with service users in developing their care plan.
• Obtain valid consent from an individual or relevant other for a range of healthcare activities.
• To participate as part of the multi-disciplinary team implementing, evaluating and reviewing all aspects of the service users’ care.
• Advise, inform, and support on the physical health and wellbeing of individuals (services users, their family, their significant other) in a holistic way.
• Liaise, advise, and inform service providers to enable them to support services users to access and use services in a way which respects their values and supports their rights.

Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in relation to supporting the recovery and wellbeing of service users.

• To undertake the Occupational Therapy process in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and professional code of ethics and professional conduct.

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.