Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

• Actively shapes and assesses the OT Pathway within Acute Inpatient Services, deputising for the Occupational Therapy Manager while maintaining a clinical caseload and engaging fully with the multidisciplinary team.
• Shares specialist skills and experience to enhance patient care quality and effectiveness.
• Applies evidence-based, client-centred principles to design, implement, and review group and individual interventions, embedding the Vona du Toit Model of Creative Ability (VdT MoCA) across Acute Services.
• Supports the OT process for individuals with complex biopsychosocial needs.
• Advocates for patients' rights, ensuring equal access to recovery-supporting opportunities and addressing occupational discrimination related to mental health.
• Role models the OT approach within the multidisciplinary team, demonstrating strong awareness of mental health care and ward culture.
• Contributes to occupational therapy service development through involvement in clinical governance, including audits.
• Provides leadership and management to Band 5 OTs and OT support staff under the supervision of the Advanced Occupational Therapist, as part of the Senior OT role.
• Delivers OT interventions as part of the multidisciplinary team, aiming to maximise independence in self-care, productivity, and leisure.

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health & learning disability services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

Our values

We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Employer.