Allied Health Professional - Community

Job summary

We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join a brand new service, targeting patients who suffer with anorexia nervosa, withdeteriorating weight, in an intensive onlineprogramme. This new service is called the Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Programme.

The Waterlilyservicewill work across 5 different eating disorder community teams within the East Midlands region, offering patients intenstive support to restore their weight and work towards recovery.This will include a range of individual sessions and groups including: CBT, Psych-Ed, body image, neuroscience and anxiety management. The Waterlilyservice will also support patients with meal supervision, trips to coffee shops/supermarkets, cooking at homeand low-key fun groups.

The occupational therapist will take a lead in facilitating and co-facilitating these groups with the support of other experienced clinicians across the provider collaborative.

Main duties of the job

The main aspects of the role will be to provide:

• Occupational Therapy assessments
• Intervention plans including: 1:1 goal setting and support, meal supervision/meal cookery, low key groups e.g. arts and crafts, supermarket support.
• Facilitating online groups
• Providing supervision to less experienced staff
• Training and development of staff
• Risk management
• Coordinating timetable of groups
• Working collaboratively with patients and carers

The benefits ofbeing thepost holder will be:

• Current OTs describe role as rewarding and fun
• Autonomy to facilitate patient focussed interventions
• Regular supervision
• Inhouse training
• Regular CPD
• Free car parking
• Contribution to continued development and service improvements
• Working within a skilled and creative team including assistant psychologists, OTs, nurses, therapists and TherapySupport Workers.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. 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 serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. 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 can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. 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 cri

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bennion Centre,Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road

,Glenfield,Leicester,LE3 9QP

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9QP

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

Bennion Centre,Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road

,Glenfield,Leicester,LE3 9QP

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9QP

Employer's website

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

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