Senior Occupational Therapist EIP

Job overview

Come and join the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team, there are 4 highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams supporting service users in the community across Birmingham. We hold true to our trust values of being ambitious, brave, and compassionate and are very committed to challenging individual as well as systemic barriers to mental wellness and social recovery.

This role will provide opportunities to develop generic care coordination, risk assessment, and groupwork skills alongside managing an Occupation Focused caseload, supporting the wider MDT with specialist interventions such as sensory assessment. You will be supported by an advanced Occupational Therapist for caseload supervision. The role is service wide, face paced and no day will be the same. You will have the opportunity to work with 16–35-year-olds and their families, for up to 3 years intensively, supporting them to understand their illness and personalising strategies which enable their recovery.

Main duties of the job

This is an amazing opportunity to join a well established, friendly multi disciplinary team using Occupational Formulations, Occupation focused interventions and sensory pathways to aid recovery. Members of our team have been supported to developing core OT skills as well as additional specialist modalities such as BFT, BUSS, ADOS, CBTp.

We work on an assertive outreach model so have a flexible, creative and proactive approach to engaging service users and promoting their recovery.

The core features of the EIP model are based on the NICE guidance for young people and adults for psychosis and schizophrenia (2014) and the new national standards for EIP (2016).

For further information please contact:

Zara Parveen

Lead Nurse

Site: Touch Base Pears

Selly Oak

Birmingham

0121 333-8342

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for the management of a specialist clinical caseload, with guidance from a senior occupational therapist in FTB
• To ensure effective assessment and treatment of 16 to 35 year old’s, contributing these skills and knowledge to the MDT.  Work in a client-centred way to help identify goals for intervention.
• To decide on appropriate occupational therapy intervention, being guided by principles and policies applicable to FTB trust employees.
• Assist in maintaining high professional standards by monitoring workload and treatment methods.  Advise supervisor of unrealistic caseload levels
• To attend case reviews/conferences and other meetings relevant to the young person.
• To be aware of incident reporting procedures for child and adult safeguarding, asking for support from supervisor in order to report the incident.
• To plan and carry out group therapy and/or one to one sessions in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.

Communication

• To demonstrate effective communication skills with service users aged 16 to 35 yrs, carers, team members, colleagues and other agencies.
• Attend case reviews, case conferences and other relevant meetings.
• To keep line manager informed of developments within specialist area.

Documentation

• Provide written reports on all service users aged 16 to 35 yrs who have received Occupational Therapy, as well as maintaining verbal reporting.
• To maintain detailed and accurate case notes within multidisciplinary notes in accordance with professional standards

Service Development and Delivery

• To participate in the planning evaluation and audit of clinical practice, clinical pathways and protocols within your area.
• To participate in the delivery of the Occupational Therapy development plan.
• To undertake a wider role for the benefit of FTB and the OT service, as required.
• To contribute towards policy development within FTB.
• To contribute towards the Children, Young People and Families and Mental Health (RCOT) special interest group.
• To provide support for other FTB Occupational Therapists within the Trust and help facilitate good quality services which best meets the needs of children and young people
• Participate in the appraisal system both as an appraisee, and an appraiser of more junior staff