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Operia Limited
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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Senior Occupational Therapist
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Job Type: Full-time |
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Overview
Get to work for the UK’s leading independent provider of mental health care in a well-established inpatient service for 13-18 year-olds rated ‘good’ in their latest CQC inspection. Are you an Occupational Therapist who wants to work with a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team in a large site situated in landscaped gardens and within a beautiful grade II listed building? Perhaps you want to make a real positive difference to young people who have experienced multiple admissions in various settings and where placements have broken down in the past? Maybe you want the opportunity to lead and co-ordinate a small team of OT’s and TI’s? If you've answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then this is worth exploring. Operia is representing a world-renowned and the UK’s leading independent provider of mental health care services to search for and headhunt a Senior Occupational Therapist to join their dynamic Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) Occupational Therapy Service, providing support to their Young People's Inpatient Service in a low secure unit. The unit provides care for up to 10 young people who present with severe deliberate self-harming behaviours, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional dysregulation, and attachment difficulties. The successful candidate will be responsible for carrying a clinical caseload in a unique specialist national low secure facility, providing therapeutic rehabilitation for female adolescents who have complex needs and who require a longer-term therapeutic intervention within a secure in-patient setting. It would suit a candidate who has experience of working in inpatient secure settings, or certainly have previous experience of working within CAMHs services. For your dedication and hard work, you will be rewarded with excellent CPD and training opportunities within this service, and funded and accredited training opportunities will be available and agreed as part of the role too. If you would like a more detailed job description or would like an informal conversation with us, please get in touch with Ryan Allen at Operia. OR if this sounds like your next job, then hit apply on this ad. The post holder will be required to have previous experience of working within CAMHs services and ideally secure settings. The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled assessment and treatment of a designated case load within the frame work of an established programme. Involving the following: •To ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Occupational Therapy process in line with sound evidence based practice. •To attend MDT, CPA, case conferences, referral meetings and nursing handover. •To manage a defined caseload using evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions and records all interventions. •To develop skills and knowledge through participation in a Professional Development Planning process to meet the competency framework. •To work within CAMHS Setting providing a service to clients who are deemed to have complex and challenging needs. •To lead and co-ordinate a small team of OT’s and TI’s across the CAMHS Service.