Senior Occupational Therapist

Fenland Adult Locality Team is the community mental health team based in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. We are a small team, looking for a full time Occupational Therapist (OT). This is a new post within the team, and you will be overseeing the OT pathways, ensuring a smooth flow for the patient journey. This will include occupational, functional, sensory and reablement pathways.

You will be managing and overseeing the waiting list for all pathways, assessing patients, working with the support workers who work under the reablement pathway, providing supervision where appropriate. You will also be crucial in ensuring this workstream is imbedded within the team, to provide a holistic and cohesive approach for the patient, while they are under our service.

FALT is a very small team and we work very well as a fully functioning MDT, where we are fully aligned to the recovery model., The occupational therapist will provide specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation and the principles of recovery and enablement/reablement.

The post holder will use specialist clinical skills and reasoning to manage a caseload with complex needs, working with a high degree of autonomy and referring to senior staff when necessary.

The occupational therapist will apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptions to the service user's social and physical environment.

The role works collaboratively with service users to promote vocational rehabilitation and act as a team resource/specialist in vocational rehabilitation and employment.

The occupational therapist will contribute to the delivery of specialist occupational focused interventions including sensory integration/ approaches and enabling/reablement approaches.

The occupational therapist will ensure that all care planning will involve the service user and where appropriate the carer, collaboratively identifying, pursuing and reviewing goals in the context of care planning.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.