Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Ready to elevate your clinical leadership? You will bridge the gap between complex client needs and innovative recovery plans.

We offer a space where you can work autonomously, advocate for your profession, and develop staff—all while evolving your own specialist skillset in a fast-paced, rewarding environment. The senior occupational therapist is an experienced occupational therapist within the multi-disciplinary care team, bringing holistic, occupation and recovery focussed perspectives to an exciting MDT.

Main duties of the job

• To identify, develop and provide the Occupational Therapy contribution within the multi-disciplinary service in accordance with the needs of service users and the requirements of the service.
• To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users.
• To manage a defined caseload of service users with occupational needs using evidence based, service user centred, hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention orientated principles and practice.
• To provide supervision to designated junior staff and students.
• Demonstrates ability to work as a team member as well as autonomously.
• Managing a case load of service users who have complex needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Balancing all aspects of the job role.
• Being flexible and responsive to competing demands.
• Promoting Occupational Therapy in the service and keeping an occupational focus at the centre of practice.
• Demonstrate an ability to apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge commensurate to a higher level of professional practice.
• To ensure assessment of service users and analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs.
• To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises occupational engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
• To act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards
• To demonstrate clinical leadership skills through the management of dedicated projects and approved quality improvement initiatives

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification