Job summary
We hope that you will join us as our Specialist Occupational Therapist, supporting the delivery of the new Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service across the Pennine Care footprint.
This is a senior Occupational Therapist clinical role within a new multiagency team comprising clinical psychology, learning disability nursing, speech and language therapy and support workers. The Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service sits alongside the Community Learning Disability and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services across the footprint, consisting of community learning disability nursing, clinical psychology and psychiatry.
Main duties of the job
The team will be working with a small number of children and young people who have severe learning disabilities and who have been identified as having complex needs including autism and/or behaviour that challenges, that require intensive support. Working alongside the local respite and short breaks services, the Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service will work together to create, instigate and support person centred positive behaviour support plans with the aim of improving the quality of life for this group of children and young people and reduce any restrictions or restraints (in accordance with NICE guidance).
The post holder will have extensive experience working with this client group and have developed skills in specialist assessment of functional, psychological, social and educational needs of children and young people with severe learning disabilities and complex needs, alongside skills in formulation, intervention and evaluation. The postholder will be the only Occupational Therapist in the service and will therefore be responsible for promoting a particular professional viewpoint within the team. The post holder will also have experience of supervision, training and consultation. The postholder will have the skills and experience to manage their own complex cases and experience of working in multi-agency settings.
About us
This is a chance to be involved in helping to deliver a service based on the principles of the Ealing Model, including positive behavioural support and trauma informed interventions, whilst drawing on your knowledge and expertise of the needs of this population. It is an exciting and transformational project. You will support the consultant lead with the mobilisation of this model across our five localities, linking to the dynamic risk register and working alongside families.
This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- Delivery of occupational therapy service in a multi-agency environment and in the context of the footprint wide ITSBS
- To take the lead in providing specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including self report measures, direct and indirect observation and interviews with young people, family members and/or carers. Assessments may be face to face or virtual and must show appropriate consideration of medical, cognitive, psychological, social, environmental and cultural factors
- To provide standardised assessments relating to occupational therapy as required and to communicate the results of these in an appropriate and sensitive manner
- To provide evidence-based interventions as part of the service pathway and support other staff forming a team around the young person to adopt appropriate intervention strategies relating to occupational therapy, in particular, management of sensory needs
- To take responsibility for monitoring outcomes of intervention
- To recognise barriers to change and act on these as appropriate
- To take autonomous responsibility for communicating with the referrer, young person and family and other agencies involved as required
- To autonomously identify training needs for carers and provide advice and training around occupational therapy issues as required
- To provide training, advice and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and service provision
- To provide training on issues related to occupational therapy, particularly sensory issues to the wider service as required
- To contribute to Positive Behaviour Support Plans and to develop skills in Positive Behaviour Support planning
- To be responsible for following step up and step down procedures around PBS plans with the Specialist Community Service for Learning Disabilities and Autism and/or with Community Occupational Therapy Services as required
- To contribute a highly specialist perspective to case planning and multi-agency case conferences and reviews
- This role will require the postholder to work across quadrants 3 and 4 of thrive including risk management
Management and service development:
- To contribute to the continuing development of the ITSBS
- To contribute to the continuing development of the Positive Behaviour Support pathways in PCFT in conjunction with the team lead
- To help plan, contribute and participate in any team building process that may be seen as necessary to enhance the working efficiency of the ITSBS
- To be involved in the short-listing and interviewing for new posts as required
- To attend team meetings
- To engage in consultation and liaison with community health, social care and education colleagues
- To supervise junior staff as required, holding clinical responsibility for supervision advice given
- To be lead representative of occupational therapy within the ITSBS
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- Delivery of occupational therapy service in a multi-agency environment and in the context of the footprint wide ITSBS
- To take the lead in providing specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including self report measures, direct and indirect observation and interviews with young people, family members and/or carers. Assessments may be face to face or virtual and must show appropriate consideration of medical, cognitive, psychological, social, environmental and cultural factors
- To provide standardised assessments relating to occupational therapy as required and to communicate the results of these in an appropriate and sensitive manner
- To provide evidence-based interventions as part of the service pathway and support other staff forming a team around the young person to adopt appropriate intervention strategies relating to occupational therapy, in particular, management of sensory needs
- To take responsibility for monitoring outcomes of intervention
- To recognise barriers to change and act on these as appropriate
- To take autonomous responsibility for communicating with the referrer, young person and family and other agencies involved as required
- To autonomously identify training needs for carers and provide advice and training around occupational therapy issues as required
- To provide training, advice and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and service provision
- To provide training on issues related to occupational therapy, particularly sensory issues to the wider service as required
- To contribute to Positive Behaviour Support Plans and to develop skills in Positive Behaviour Support planning
- To be responsible for following step up and step down procedures around PBS plans with the Specialist Community Service for Learning Disabilities and Autism and/or with Community Occupational Therapy Services as required
- To contribute a highly specialist perspective to case planning and multi-agency case conferences and reviews
- This role will require the postholder to work across quadrants 3 and 4 of thrive including risk management
Management and service development:
- To contribute to the continuing development of the ITSBS
- To contribute to the continuing development of the Positive Behaviour Support pathways in PCFT in conjunction with the team lead
- To help plan, contribute and participate in any team building process that may be seen as necessary to enhance the working efficiency of the ITSBS
- To be involved in the short-listing and interviewing for new posts as required
- To attend team meetings
- To engage in consultation and liaison with community health, social care and education colleagues
- To supervise junior staff as required, holding clinical responsibility for supervision advice given
- To be lead representative of occupational therapy within the ITSBS
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Eligible for HCPC registration
- Short courses and experience to Masters level in specialist area
Desirable
- Additional qualifications in learning disabilities and autism related interventions
- Masters Degree
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of working with children with severe and complex disabilities; including Autism; and their families in complex multi-agency settings
- Experience of designing and developing interventions for this client group
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teamwork
- Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals
- Considerable experience managing risk in children with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
- Experience of liaison and consultation in relation to a wide range of other relevant agencies
- Experience of effective multiagency working
Desirable
- Experience of coproduction
- Experience of PBS planning
- Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working within a Safeguarding Children framework
- Capacity to remain a high degree of professionalism in face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties and situations
- Ability to provide an occupational therapy lens and viewpoint in MDT working
- Knowledge and experience of sensory integration and sensory profiling and support
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to plan and prioritise own caseload
- Ability to select, use and interpret a range of occupational therapy assessments
- Ability to lead groups and chair multiagency forum
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent demonstrable time management and organisational skills
- Experience of delivering training
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study
- Ability to work independently and manage complex caseload with the support of clinical and management supervision
- Ability and skills to supervise junior staff
- This post has a community focus and there will be daily travel2
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Eligible for HCPC registration
- Short courses and experience to Masters level in specialist area
Desirable
- Additional qualifications in learning disabilities and autism related interventions
- Masters Degree
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of working with children with severe and complex disabilities; including Autism; and their families in complex multi-agency settings
- Experience of designing and developing interventions for this client group
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teamwork
- Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals
- Considerable experience managing risk in children with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
- Experience of liaison and consultation in relation to a wide range of other relevant agencies
- Experience of effective multiagency working
Desirable
- Experience of coproduction
- Experience of PBS planning
- Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working within a Safeguarding Children framework
- Capacity to remain a high degree of professionalism in face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties and situations
- Ability to provide an occupational therapy lens and viewpoint in MDT working
- Knowledge and experience of sensory integration and sensory profiling and support
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to plan and prioritise own caseload
- Ability to select, use and interpret a range of occupational therapy assessments
- Ability to lead groups and chair multiagency forum
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent demonstrable time management and organisational skills
- Experience of delivering training
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study
- Ability to work independently and manage complex caseload with the support of clinical and management supervision
- Ability and skills to supervise junior staff
- This post has a community focus and there will be daily travel2
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
