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- Prif leoliad
- Mental Health
- Gradd
- Band 6
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 364-A-9044
- Cyflogwr
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Thurrock Community Hospital
- Tref
- Grays
- Cyflog
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, plus 5% HCA
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 18/06/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward thinking Occupational Therapist to join our older adult in-patient ward.
This is an opportunity to work in both Functional and Organic wards providing therefore excellent broad based clinical experience covering both mental and physical health.
Ideally you will have experience in mental health and have excellent communication and organisational skills. You will form an integral member of a dynamic team currently implementing a Therapeutic Model aimed across our inpatient services. We are socialising the unique contribution of Occupational Therapy enabling excellent patient care with positive measurable outcomes.
You will be a member of a broad-based team with other qualified and Occupational Therapy Assistants to support your delivery of the service. Knowledge of the VdT Model of Creative Ability would be an advantage, although training will be given.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
ROLE SUMMARY
· To work as a Senior Clinician for Acute Older Adult In-patient services providing specialist holistic recovery-based interventions.
· To provide leadership to the team, support and facilitate learning, and use research and evidence based practise to facilitate change
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
· To assess all patients on the ward using a priority system.
· To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.
· To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.
· To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with patients and their carers.
· To liaise closely with community based services as required.
· To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.
· To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower patients and facilitate optimal functional performance.
· To liaise with Social Services and Housing Organisations concerning provision of equipment and home adaptations.
· To apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of patients in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention.
· To make clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of patient care to assistants, junior staff, students, carers and statutory or non-statutory bodies.
· To regularly review patients’ progress in order to evaluate and interpret effectiveness of treatment plans, and amend treatment or discharge patients accordingly.
· To ensure that treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.
· To develop and initiate interventions based on the integration of theoretical knowledge in order to meet unique patient needs.
· To attend professional Occupational Therapy meetings as required.
· To attend appropriate training events as appropriate.
· To maintain a continuing professional development portfolio.
· To undertake annual appraisal.
· To contribute constructively to the supervision process.
· To provide supervision and day to day operational management to junior staff in the Acute Older Adult in-patient Department.
· To supervise students.
· To occasionally represent the Occupational Therapy profession at service development forums.
· To comply with policies and agreed procedures for annual leave, sickness and time owing.
· To complete any documentation for statistical purposes.
Manyleb y person
Knowledge and Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Older Adult Mental Health Experience
Meini prawf dymunol
- Falls Prevention
- Equipment and Environmental Modification Skills
Professional Characteristics
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Highly effective communication skills
- Organisational skills and self-motivating
Meini prawf dymunol
- Time management and computer skills
- Skills in networking with local organisations
Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Ellen van den Hoven
- Teitl y swydd
- Head Occupational Therapist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07811166399
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Please contact if you would like to make a visit, this may be able to be arranged for you.
Rhestr swyddi gyda Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust yn Proffesiynau perthynol i iechyd neu bob sector