Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Would you like to work in a passionate, innovative service and join our friendly community-based team working with Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities and their families?

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic Occupational Therapist with experience in Community Mental Health, SEND or Learning Disability to join our service.

We are a multi-disciplinary community team working with families whose children, including looked after children, have moderate to severe learning disabilities with significant psychological, behavioural and communication difficulties. The team is comprised of Clinical Psychologists, Speech & Language Therapists, Family Support Workers, Occupational Therapist, Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, Consultant Psychiatrist, and a Clinical Nurse Specialist.

We use a wide range of psychological models and approaches within the team such as Systemic approaches, Positive Behaviour Support, Functional Analysis, Attachment theory, Mindfulness-based approaches and the Family Partnership Model. We are also keen to incorporate new models of working and welcome applications from someone with additional training in sensory processing or a willingness to undergo training in this area.

You will be supported within the team by senior clinicians and supervised by an Occupational Therapist and will work closely with other specialists within the service, CAMHS and universal children's services.

FTC or Secondment through to 31/3/23

Main duties of the job

The key components of this job will be to provide:

• A high quality community based service to children with learning disabilities and their families and other staff involved in their care.
• Specialist Occupational therapy assessments and multi-disciplinary interventions for children presenting with challenging behaviours including sensory processing & functional assessments.
• Developing and facilitating parent groups.
• Participate in generic duties within the service including being part of the duty and referrals team
• Consultation and Training to other agencies and services working with children with learning disabilities
• Key lead roles in specific projects e.g. Implementation of care pathways/ team initiatives.

You will need to have significant experience of applying your clinical skills in some or all of the following:

• with complex cases and multi-agency systems;
• with children/young people or adults with a learning disability;
• with looked after children
• in a CAMHS setting or in adults with a learning disability
• at a range of levels including direct work with young people, parents and carers;
• Providing supervision, consultation and liaison.
• managing high levels of clinical risk

Professional development is encouraged through supervision, training, team CPD and wider CAMHS, AHP and Trust events.

There will also be opportunities to network with other OT's within the trust.

About us

The successful candidate will provide effective guidance, supervision and appraisals for junior staff. Previous experience of this is preferred although not essential.

In return the successful applicant will be supported by a professional, highly motivated and caring MDT. You will be provided with regular OT clinical supervision and peer support. You will have access to training opportunities to assist you to realise your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction. As a Trust employee you will enjoy the standard NHS annual leave entitlement and pension schemes. We offer and support flexible working and part time working, and encourage those looking to develop their own learning and career development to apply.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Highmore

Western Road

Hailsham

BN27 3DY

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Highmore

Western Road

Hailsham

BN27 3DY

Employer's website

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

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