Job description

Job responsibilities

As a registered Occupational Therapist, you would be joining a highly motivated, knowledgeable and innovative OT team. You will have the opportunity to be innovative and create new therapy ideas. Experience will be gained as part of a multi-disciplinary team, taking responsibility for a clinical caseload, and offering OT specific assessment and treatment to groups and individuals within your care. As an employee of St Andrews, you will adopt an inclusive and can do attitude in approaching your work.

You will demonstrate good understanding of OT within secure services, including an application of risk assessment skills. In sharing your experience of applying the OT process, you should also emphasise how you promote our specialism as a profession.

Continued professional development is supported, with access to a range of in-house CPD events, as well as an expectation to be involved in the development and training of OT students. Further opportunities include networking opportunities with colleagues of the same and different grades within the service and The Charity.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• You should have:
• Experience and knowledge of working within a secure setting.
• Knowledge and experience of working within mental health services.
• An interest, knowledge and understanding of a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches which guide practice and clinical reasoning. For example Model of Human Occupation, occupational science, occupational diagnosis and sensory approaches.
• Knowledge and experience in using occupational assessment tools to support clinical reasoning, treatment planning and evaluation of interventions.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to develop good professional relationships with members of the MDT and patient group, and the ability to liaise with a variety of outside agencies (within and outside of the hospital).

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Occupational Therapy

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).

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Pound Lane

Basildon

Essex

SS12 9JP

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)