Job summary
Advanced Occupational Therapist (Band 7) -FACTT Service
0:8 WTE (30 hours)
Looking for a new challenge? Looking to use your skills and experience in a new setting?
We are looking to recruit an innovative, enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Forensic Assessment Consultation, Training and Treatment team (FACTT) which covers the area of Coventry and Warwickshire.
FACTT is a community forensic support service which was originally commissioned in 2018 as part of the Transforming Care Agenda. for adults with a learning disability (LD) to support timely discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or prison. In an exciting development, the FACTT team is currently being expanded to include autistic individuals who have forensic needs across Coventry and Warwickshire. This is one of the posts being recruited into as part of this exciting expansion. Based on the core functions of the national specification for community forensic LD and autism services, the community forensic service provides:
- Forensic in-reach support to inpatient services to support safe and timely discharges
- Assessment and management of forensic risk in the community to ensure public safety and safety of the individual
- Consultancy and support
- Training and advice to other agencies
- Treatment: Delivery of offence specific therapeutic interventions
Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
This is an exciting new post; offering the right candidate the opportunity to take a lead role in Occupational Therapy provision within the FACTT team. The successful applicant will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, which includes psychology, nursing, speech and language therapy, social work and psychiatry. The post holder will be professionally managed and supervised by the AHP lead within the LD & A directorate but will receive clinical support and supervision from the FACTT team.
About us
Successful applicants will receive support to further develop their skills and knowledge, through good quality supervision and training opportunities.
The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The successful applicant will have experience working in specialist inpatient or community learning disability and/or Autism services and will be competent in working with clients with complex needs. They will be used to managing their own caseload effectively and supervising qualified or unqualified staff as well as delivering and receiving clinical supervision. They will have had previous involvement in service evaluation and audit.
Please note Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The successful applicant will have experience working in specialist inpatient or community learning disability and/or Autism services and will be competent in working with clients with complex needs. They will be used to managing their own caseload effectively and supervising qualified or unqualified staff as well as delivering and receiving clinical supervision. They will have had previous involvement in service evaluation and audit.
Please note Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant masters level degree (or equivalent KTE gained through experience)
- Registered Occupational Therapist with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Documented evidence of CPD in the specialist clinical area.
- Post Graduate training related to the specialist clinical area.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Evidence of clinical assessment skills with reference to Autism and Learning Disability
- Ability to use specific Occupational Therapy standardised assessments, outcome measurements e.g., Assessment of Motor and Process Skills, sensory processing, Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool.
- Ability to demonstrate written skills that are relevant, accurate, concise and legible.
- Evidence of time and resource management skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, varying approach, according to need / situations.
- Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of the College of Occupational Therapy Code of Professional Conduct.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes affecting the NHS especially those relevant to Occupational Therapy and Learning Disabilities.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Governance, standard setting and the audit process (understand the principles of Clinical Governance)
- Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility in respect of Health and Safety.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Computer literacy
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration experience
- Significant experience working with people with autism and/or learning disabilities at a senior level
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to and access a variety of different environments covering long distances and transport equipment
- Ability to manually handle service users and/or equipment safely to attain positioning necessary to perform safe and effective clinical interventions.
- Ability to work flexibly within the week.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant masters level degree (or equivalent KTE gained through experience)
- Registered Occupational Therapist with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Documented evidence of CPD in the specialist clinical area.
- Post Graduate training related to the specialist clinical area.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Evidence of clinical assessment skills with reference to Autism and Learning Disability
- Ability to use specific Occupational Therapy standardised assessments, outcome measurements e.g., Assessment of Motor and Process Skills, sensory processing, Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool.
- Ability to demonstrate written skills that are relevant, accurate, concise and legible.
- Evidence of time and resource management skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, varying approach, according to need / situations.
- Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of the College of Occupational Therapy Code of Professional Conduct.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes affecting the NHS especially those relevant to Occupational Therapy and Learning Disabilities.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Governance, standard setting and the audit process (understand the principles of Clinical Governance)
- Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility in respect of Health and Safety.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Computer literacy
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration experience
- Significant experience working with people with autism and/or learning disabilities at a senior level
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to and access a variety of different environments covering long distances and transport equipment
- Ability to manually handle service users and/or equipment safely to attain positioning necessary to perform safe and effective clinical interventions.
- Ability to work flexibly within the week.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
