Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (to cover maternity leave)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 364-A-7347-B
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Home Working and REACH Recovery College
- Town
- Rochford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist Primary Care Mental Health
Band 7
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
Here is an opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to extend and develop their skills in leading and managing a small clinical team of Occupational Therapists delivering interventions to those managing their mental health within the Primary Care provision.
This is a fixed term period role covering maternity leave (secondment can be considered subject to appropriate levels of agreement) based within South East Essex. The role requires the practitioner to undertake both direct clinical interventions and management responsibilities within the service.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work integratively with the wider community sector to enable a provision of wrap around support to both those stepping down from secondary mental health services and those within primary care provision, co-ordinating brief focussed interventions within the team in liaison with other primary care providers.
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
Please see attached job description
The post-holder will maintain an overview of the service delivery, triaging referrals, undertaking assessments and delivering time limited brief interventions to adults with mental health needs managed within primary care provision.
The post holder will manage and lead the clinical team, providing supervision and guidance to team members and guidance to the wider MDT.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in OT
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Additional post grad formal training
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant mental health experience and knowledge
- Range of therapeutic interventions
Desirable criteria
- Primary care working
Leadership
Essential criteria
- Supervisory experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cat Grief
- Job title
- Head Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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