Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS- T4 hospital at home service
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CFS639
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wokingham Hospital
- Town
- Wokingham
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 per annum (inc. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Are you looking for a new rewarding position working alongside a fantastically supportive team who consistently rate their job satisfaction highly?
We are looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our well-established CAMHS T4, Alternative to admission Day Hospital and Home Treatment service. Our service provides interventions for young people with complex mental health issues requiring Tier-4 level care, but who benefit from a more flexible, community-based approach.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of Occupational Therapy care plans, and activities to support therapy plans, for young people referred to the Berkshire CAMHS Phoenix, Tier 4 alternative to admission Day Hospital and Home Treatment Service.
The service based in CAMHS Phoenix on the Wokingham Community Hospital site is a hospital at home service that provides evidence based psychiatric, nursing and therapeutic interventions for young people under the age of 18 presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties assessed as requiring Tier 4 level care, outside of inpatient unit.
Main duties of the job
The service will operate from 8am-8pm Mon-Fri; 9am-5pm Sat, Sun & Bank holiday’s (365 days per year). This post will operate over core hours Monday-Friday (to be agreed with the post holder) however the post holder will be required to occasionally work up to 20.00hrs and weekends to meet the needs of the patient group such as:
- families are demonstrably unable to attend at different times
- As a result of multiple DNAs
- To hold multifamily therapy
- To run group specific work.
The role includes delivering care to young people both individually and in groups, on site at CAMHS Phoenix, in the young person’s home and via digital media. The post holder will be expected to work within this complex and variable setting, without direct supervision, but reporting to and in collaboration with senior colleagues, to deliver a high standard of evidence-based care and treatment in order to maximise each young person's individual potential.
This post includes working with families and / or carers in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and also with community CAMHS, children’s social care and other Local Authority and voluntary sector colleagues. The Service is an integral part of the wider specialist CAMHs service in Berkshire and is managed alongside and closely linked to the CAMHS Specialist Community Teams including CAMHS crisis, eating disorders and early intervention in psychosis services and relevant adult mental health services
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Compassion towards people struggling with complex social and mental health difficulties, and a heartfelt desire to help others;
- Resilience which enables you to work in a fast-paced and at times demanding NHS environment;
- Commitment to your colleagues and the ability to support each other, “muck in” and pull together as a team
- Creativity and innovation as you will be a part of a team which prides itself on adapting quickly and innovatively to change and challenges
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Emma Regan via email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- HPC Registration
- Good standard of general education
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of COT preceptorship programme
- Further relevant qualification in the field of mental health
Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience which may include role of a supervisee for junior staff or students, and leadership experience, which may be gained if you have been working as a qualified
- O.T. for 2 years or more
- Experience of working with children and young people with mental health problems
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems
- Experience of individual and group work OT intervention
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of working in a community mental health service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising staff and students
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Thorough working knowledge of mental health problems and their management
- Knowledge of OT assessment and treatment approaches
- Knowledge of current mental health policy
- Ability to offer a range of good quality OT assessments and treatment interventions to individuals and groups
- Ability to work as a member of a multi- disciplinary team
- Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities within caseload management
- Ability to apply patient-led principles and form non-discriminatory therapeutic relationships with the service users and their parents/ carers
- Ability to take responsibility appropriate to senior clinician role, and make decisions
- Ability to contribute creatively to the development of the service.
- Ability to work within a changing and progressive environment
Desirable criteria
- Ability to deal with emotionally demanding situations, and to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own Performance
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to commit to flexible working patterns, including weekend working and shift work
- Ability to travel independently and efficiently to deliver clinical care from multiple sites including service user homes
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Majid Nazari
- Job title
- Team Manager Phoenix
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920767875
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