Specialist Occupational Therapist Essex Learning Disability Services

Due to an expansion of the Learning Disability Service, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and highly motivated Occupational Therapist to work with Individuals who receive support from the Community Enhanced support team and the Inpatient Assessment and Treatment Unit. You will have the chance to work as part of a dedicated, specialist and innovative Muti Disciplinary Team, where you will help to improve the lives and wellbeing of individuals with a Learning Disability.
You will be able to follow the Individuals in your care 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 simple, person-centred way that empowers individuals to maximise their potential.
We are a supportive and forward-thinking team, with great peer networks. We actively promote learning and professional development with opportunities in both clinical and leadership fields of work.
We invite and welcome further discussions from anyone keen to apply., + 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.
+, · To provide a high quality Occupational Therapy Service and consultation to people within the Essex Specialist Learning Disability Services.
· To manage a caseload, using evidence based/client principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in clinic, community settings and when in hospital.
· To provide specialist Occupational Therapy advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a client's formulation, diagnosis and case management plan.
· To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions using selected and graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
· To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
· To ensure that clients are consulted and involved in decision about their care.
· To maintain clinical records.
· To develop skills and knowledge.
· To provide an effective supervision framework for Occupational Therapy staff, and provide regular supervision to allocated OT staff as per Trust policy., HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
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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?
Then please read on…, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and
professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.