Advanced Occupational Therapist

Job summary

A exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Advanced Occupational Therapist to lead a new Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adult's with an Eating Disorder.This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promoting recovery from an Eating Disorder.

Your clinical skills will involve working with severe/complex individuals with an Eating Disorder and have a excellent understanding of occupationally focused evidence based assessments and skills to provide therapeutic interventions in a community setting.

Your managerial skills will require you to professionally lead and manage the new team, providing supervision, guidance, support and structure.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of a small team of professionals providing assessment, treatment and interventions to adults with a Eating Disorder. Individuals who will be accessing the service will be from Devon and Cornwall and interventions are aimed at preventing an admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and supporting early discharge in a stepped down way from a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit back into the Community.The Intensive Home Treatment Team will be reviewed and monitored as a new service with a formal evaluation taking place at the end of the 12 month period. We hope that individuals feel well supported, learn new skills and can make positive changes towards recovery.

As a new service we will need the candidate to be creative, be able to work well with others and the capacity to offer lots of energy, ideas and leadership.

Please see attached job description.

About us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

Employer's website

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

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