(Part-time) Senior Occupational Therapist - CAMHS Eating Disorders

Job overview

The Senior Occupational Therapist position in Aylesbury/High Wycombe is a unique opportunity for a band 7 clinician to lead the Occupational Therapy within the CAMHS Eating Disorder service.

This role involves providing high-quality specialist clinical care to children and young people with eating disorders, including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, Binge Eating, and Atypical Eating Disorders. The position requires a multidisciplinary team approach, with collaboration with a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrist, Family Therapist, Nursing staff, Assistant Psychologists, and a Dietitian.

The service aims to deliver outstanding services to the children and young people in the Buckinghamshire catchment area and is part of a life span service with good links to Adult ED Services. The role includes a hybrid working approach, with some flexibility of home working.

Please note this role is part-time working 26.25 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to specialist multidisciplinary mental health assessment and treatment for children and young people with eating disorders.
• To directly provide therapy, assessment, consultation and treatment, taking responsibility for managing own caseload, while sharing case responsibility and treatment care with professionals from the multidisciplinary team and across partnership agencies.
• To liaise and provide consultation to professionals working with children and young people with eating disorders.
• To contribute to audit and research programmes to evaluate and improve therapy and service provision for children and young people with eating disorders.
• To be responsible for supporting the clinical team in implementing directorate and Trust initiatives at service level and for playing a key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.
• To take a leading role in the development and provision of occupational therapy within the CAMHS Eating Disorder service.
• To enhance and coordinate occupational therapy student placements.
• To develop networks and liaise with community paediatric and inpatient occupational therapy.
• To support the deliverance of comprehensive therapeutic occupational therapy interventions and activity and exercise programmes.
• To act as a key worker for children and young people within the CAMHS Eating Disorder team.
• To provide supervision to other professionals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Develop and provide a high standard of occupational therapy assessment and treatment for patients referred to the service, including the use of OT models of practice and standardised assessment tools, whilst using enhanced clinical skills.
• Utilising knowledge and skills for interpretation and analysis of patient needs.
• Hold responsibility for a defined clinical caseload as agreed with the Operational Lead.
• To provide specialist clinical assessments, formulation, intervention and review, and where appropriate CPA for children and young people with eating disorders.
• Ability to use an integration of theoretical frameworks, and evidence-based practice, to formulate clinical practice.
• To use and participate in treatment approaches such as FBT, CBT-E, CBT-T etc., as agreed with the Operational Lead.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for children and young people and to provide general advice to other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management.
• Assessing risk in collaboration with the patient and their carers where appropriate, other workers/professionals, alongside use of own professional judgement and team process. This involves exploring an individual’s risk of harm to themselves and/or others and may involve working with challenging, hostile and distressing behaviour.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

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