Band 7 Occupational Therapist

Job summary

We are looking for passionate, knowledgeable, dynamic OTs to join our growing OT provision in Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), who have experience of working in mental health and interest / experience of supporting children and young people (and their families) with complex presentations and mental health needs.

Due to investment and expansion of services, we have exciting opportunities to expand the OT provision across new and existing teams within CAMHS. These are for four permanent community Band 7 posts, offering a range of hours from fulltime to part time across the following teams Community Outpatients, Intensive community support team (ICST) and Paediatric liaison team.

See attached for more information about the OT positions and the Teams.

Please state in your application the role (s) you are interested in.

Main duties of the job

It is important that you feel confident in your clinical decision making, managing OT referrals and caseload, providing consultations, and working as part of multi-disciplinary team.

We are an OT team, that works across various specialist CAMHS teams. We come together as a team through regular OT team days and meetings which provide opportunity to learn, share skills, network and respond to local/ national service needs as a collective team.

Continued professional development is strongly valued and supported with regular OT led clinical supervision as well managerial supervisor provided by Team leaders. This along with the appraisal programme offers opportunity to achieve and identify ongoing training to support your OT practice and career progression.

Vehicle and Driving licence are important. The Trusts has access to two lease Car schemes if needed.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Westcotes House

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

LE3 0QU

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Westcotes House

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

LE3 0QU

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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