Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Eating Disorders
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday between 8am and 7pm)
- Job ref
- 367-PLAN-7969-B
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rosanne House
- Town
- Welwyn Garden City
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata +5% of basic salary, min £1,066 and max £1,845
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Therapy Practitioner
Band 4
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Full or Part Time Assistant Therapy Practitioner within Intensive Community Support Team (ICST) in Community Eating Disorder Services.
Are you interested in being part of a NHS East of England Provider Collaborative Project service to provide adults with eating disorders treatment at home? Do you have a passion for supporting recovery through occupational therapy? If so we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Therapy Practitioner to work with adults with eating disorders and their carers both in their homes and within their communities. The ICST aims to support local treatment where appropriate to prevent hospital admissions, prepare people for admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit or to facilitate an earlier discharge.
You will be part of the ICST who are a small caring multi-disciplinary team. The ICST works collaboratively with the Hertfordshire Community Eating Disorder Service and a range of service providers including Day Treatment Providers and Specialist Eating Disorder Units.
We are a caring team; working closely to ensure we support people using our service, their family/loved ones, our colleagues and each other. We are excited about the progression of the service and possibility of positively impacting peoples recovery journey.
We are looking for staff who hold our team and Trust values. Ideally you will have experience of working with people with mental health issues and/or eating disorders.
The Trust offers an Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship Scheme, so employment provides opportunity to apply for this scheme if you are interested in becoming a qualified Occupational Therapist.
If you would like to know more or are have questions please feel free to contact us.
Working for our organisation
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…
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in the Intensive Community Treatment Service (ICST) as part of Hertfordshire’s Community Eating Disorder Service to:
- Prevent admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit, or
- Prepare service users and their carers for admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit, or
- Facilitate an earlier discharge from a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit
Jointly providing short term intensive input to those at risk of hospital admission for a period of 12 weeks alongside the ICST staff.
To contribute to delivery of the ICST service specification provided by the NHS East of England Provider Collaborative and contribute to service evaluation through work with service users, carers and other service providers.
Contribute to Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions with those using the ICST under guidance of the Lead Occupational Therapist.
See the attached job description and person specification for details of each role for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Occupational Therapy role within a mental health setting
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office and associated packages
Desirable criteria
- Additional relevant trainingNVQ level 3 or a MH Certificate of equivalent qualification.
- Additional training in Eating Disorders
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems
- Experience of working autonomously and using own initiative
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a OT related setting
- Experience of service user and carer involvement in the development of services
- Knowledge of recovery principles
- Knowledge and experience of using the Model of Human Occupation Assessment tools
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Forbes-Pepitone
- Job title
- Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01707 364006
- Additional information
07812 785485
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