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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
364-A-7661
Employer
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Gables
Town
Braintree
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Pre annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/05/2024 23:59

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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Occupational Therapist

Band 6

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

  • We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
  • We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

  • We Care
  • We Learn
  • We Empower

Our strategic objectives

  • We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
  • We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
  • We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
  • We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Community Health Services
  • Learning Disabilities Services
  • Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory. 

Job overview

This is an opportunity for you to further develop your clinical skills working as a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Specialist Mental Health Team (Braintree Mid Essex). You will undertake  case management and the delivery of specific Occupational Therapy interventions as required by and determined by the service users needs.


There is a strong professional AHP leadership structure within the organisation, and you will be supported by the OT clinical lead within the locality team. There is a Trust wide Band 6 development forum.

Main duties of the job

You will be working  as part of the  Occupational Therapy team, supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team., assessing service users  making decisions on the level of treatment intervention required. You will have the responsibility for managing a caseload, delivering therapeutic interventions for those with complex mental health needs that cant be managed within primary care provision. 

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Occupational Therapy team is developing its focus on delivering recovery focused intervention to those whose needs can not be met within primary care. The successful applicant will be part of a team responsible for the assessment and delivery of occupationally focused intervention supporting those with a complex mental health needs.

Please see attached job description for detailed job description

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or Diploma
  • HCPC registration
  • Preceptorship
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant post grad training

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with those with complex MH problems
  • Range of delivery of treatment interventions

Leadership

Essential criteria
  • Experience of supervising OTA/Students
Desirable criteria
  • Service improvement delivery

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDisability confident leaderImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Essex Family Friendly Employers

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Cat Grief
Job title
Head Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07581062222
Additional information

Julia Newlove

Clinical Lead

07740797278

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