Job summary
The post holder will be required to work within the new eating disorder day treatment service.

The post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of the service to individual clients and their families and carers via a range of evidence-based interventions. They will be expected to provide cover for peers across the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, planned or unplanned as required.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure Occupational Therapy makes a significant and specialist contribution in the eating disorder day treatment service.
• Assess service users using a variety of assessment tools, specialised observational and communication skills.
• To provide a learning environment for staff and students.

About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities
The post holder will:

• Apply enhanced clinical knowledge and skills to the work environment.
• Identify and verify factors including contra-indications apparent from patient history.
• To deliver specific interventions in line with the treatment pathway, including complex clients.
• To deliver professional evidence-based OT assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and evaluation of service users needs.
• To deliver Occupational Therapy through patient engagement in meaningful activity in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure, utilising individual or group work.
• Evaluate potential efficacy of planned intervention, given all available data.
• Liaise with colleagues and other clinicians to clarify and resolve any discrepancies or difficulties in the evaluation of patient data.
• Generate options including modification or alternatives to planned intervention to meet clinical need as appropriate.
• Verify suitability and potential effectiveness of planned intervention or suggested alternatives.
• Agree course of action with those responsible for performing the intervention.
• Document key points of agreement, including specific factors which influenced advice and recommendations.
• Assess and plan care delivery for individual service users within the framework of the Care Programme Approach / keyworker responsibilities.
• To facilitate transfer between services, signpost and/ or discharge as appropriate.
• To routinely enquire, identify and report through the appropriate procedures any safeguarding issues.
• To report safeguarding issues that are identified via others.
• To perform the role of investigator for matters of safeguarding as directed by the safeguarding manager
• Work in partnership with service users in developing their care plan.
• Obtain valid consent from an individual or relevant other for a range of healthcare activities.
• To participate as part of the multi-disciplinary team implementing, evaluating and reviewing all aspects of the service users care.
• Advise, inform, and support on the physical health and wellbeing of individuals (services users, their family, their significant other) in a holistic way.
• Liaise, advise, and inform service providers to enable them to support services users to access and use services in a way which respects their values and supports their rights.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in relation to supporting the recovery and wellbeing of service users.
• To undertake the Occupational Therapy process in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and professional code of ethics and professional conduct.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification in OT
• Current unrestricted registration with HCPC
• Relevant training and experience specialist short courses

Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent written communication skills

Experience
Essential

• Substantial experience in a mental health setting
• Experience of using recovery focused intervention
• Developed specialist clinical knowledge gained within a similar environment over a considerable period of time
• Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk taking
• Experience of safeguarding
• Experience of supervising / overseeing staff and students.

Other
Essential

• Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business us

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.