Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 18 June 2025

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward thinking Occupational Therapist to join our older adult in-patient ward.

This is an opportunity to work in both Functional and Organic wards providing therefore excellent broad based clinical experience covering both mental and physical health.

Ideally you will have experience in mental health and have excellent communication and organisational skills. You will form an integral member of a dynamic team currently implementing a Therapeutic Model aimed across our inpatient services. We are socialising the unique contribution of Occupational Therapy enabling excellent patient care with positive measurable outcomes.

You will be a member of a broad-based team with other qualified and Occupational Therapy Assistants to support your delivery of the service. Knowledge of the VdT Model of Creative Ability would be an advantage, although training will be given.

Main duties of the job

ROLE SUMMARY

To work as a Senior Clinician for Acute Older Adult In-patient services providing specialist holistic recovery-based interventions.

To provide leadership to the team, support and facilitate learning, and use research and evidence based practise to facilitate change

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

Season Ticket Loans
NHS discounts for staff
Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Date posted

04 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum, plus 5% HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

364-A-9044

Job locations

Thurrock Community Hospital

Long Lane

Grays

RM16 2PX

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

To assess all patients on the ward using a priority system.

To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.

To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.

To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with patients and their carers.

To liaise closely with community based services as required.

To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.

To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower patients and facilitate optimal functional performance.

To liaise with Social Services and Housing Organisations concerning provision of equipment and home adaptations.

To apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of patients in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention.

To make clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of patient care to assistants, junior staff, students, carers and statutory or non-statutory bodies.

To regularly review patients progress in order to evaluate and interpret effectiveness of treatment plans, and amend treatment or discharge patients accordingly.

To ensure that treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.

To develop and initiate interventions based on the integration of theoretical knowledge in order to meet unique patient needs.

To attend professional Occupational Therapy meetings as required.

To attend appropriate training events as appropriate.

To maintain a continuing professional development portfolio.

To undertake annual appraisal.

To contribute constructively to the supervision process.

To provide supervision and day to day operational management to junior staff in the Acute Older Adult in-patient Department.

To supervise students.

To occasionally represent the Occupational Therapy profession at service development forums.

To comply with policies and agreed procedures for annual leave, sickness and time owing.

To complete any documentation for statistical purposes.