Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Occupational Therapist
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Exciting Opportunity at Ferndene Hospital
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Ferndene Hospital Children and Young People’s Mental Health inpatient service. We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled and experienced Advanced Occupational Therapist to join the service.
You would be joining at an exciting time working in Mental Health clinical pathways for young people coming into our service experiencing acute Mental Illness, Learning Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or neurodevelopmental condition.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading on the development of the Mental Health pathway and working clinically offering assessment, interventions, and measuring outcomes.
- Monitoring of service needs with involvement of young people or involvement services, auditing OT service, and leading on service projects.
- Working into other clinical pathways where needed.
- Requiring a approachable, motivated, and resilient person who holds shared values with the ability of projecting measured responses in mentoring and leadership staff and team, and linking with clinical and operational leads.
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Requirements
- The post holder will require advanced clinical knowledge and skills with young people with primary mental health needs who may experience learning disability/difficulties/neurodiversity needs and eating disorders.
- Expected to possess a high level of skill and experience in understanding the impact of mental illness and eating disorders, or secondary conditions and how the young person's occupational functioning and sensory processing changes.
- Providing advanced Occupational Therapy assessment and other related assessments, dependent upon the needs of young people.
- The treatment and recommendations for improving performance in managing the demands of activities of daily living, leisure, productivity, and the impact of environmental factors.
- Working alongside the young person, families, or care team and the multi-disciplinary team in devising care and treatment plans for meeting the needs of young people.
- Possessing (or developing through commitment to training) advanced knowledge and skills in theories and approaches utilised in meeting the needs of this patient group including; sensory processing strategies and sensory attachment learning to providing a holistic assessments. With the overarching occupational therapy model of practice and approaches.
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About Us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Note: NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Yvette Redwood
- Job title: Allied Health Professional Lead
- Email address: yvette.redwood@cntw.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07867902025
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