Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Due to an expansion of the Learning Disability Service, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to work with Individuals who receive support from the Community Enhanced support team and the Inpatient Assessment and Treatment Unit. With direct support from the OT Professional Lead, your role will be to grow and develop an evidence based OT provision within this service. You will work as part of a dedicated and innovative MDT, where you will help to improve the lives and wellbeing of individuals with a Learning Disability. You will be able to follow the Individuals as they transition between the community and inpatient services, offering continuity of care and a client centred approach throughout. You will use your core OT knowledge to promote participation and independence in Activities of Daily living, whilst having the opportunity to strengthen and develop specialist areas such as Sensory Integration and Positive Behaviour Support. The Essex Specialist Learning Disabilities service is committed to improving the health and well-being of people with a learning disability across North-East, Mid & West Essex, by working in a person-centred way that empowers individuals to maximise their potential. We are a supportive, forward-thinking team, with great peer networks. We actively promote learning and development opportunities in both clinical and leadership fields of work.,

• To provide high quality, comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group with complex needs.
• To work in an interdisciplinary way to assess service user's needs, devise care plans and evaluate outcomes and to carry a caseload as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide clinical advice and support for service users that present with behaviour that challenges and require support with their mental health.
• Work directly with service users, carers, colleagues and other service providers.
• Support people during hospital admissions through focused assessment, intervention and support
• Facilitate and support safe discharge from hospital back into the community
• Deliver training and education to other professionals/carers/family.
• To develop Occupational Therapy provision within the service with support from the Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist and Professional Lead Occupational Therapist.
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  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?