Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
Specialist Occupational Therapist - Intensive Support Team
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Are you an innovative and highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wants to improve the lives and wellbeing of individuals with a Learning Disability?
Then we could be the team for you!
Job Overview
Due to an expansion of the Specialist Learning Disability provision, we are looking for an Intensive Support Occupational Therapist to work alongside community and inpatient colleagues to best meet the needs of individuals known to the intensive support team.
Key Responsibilities
- Use your core OT skills by promoting participation and independence in Activities of Daily Living.
- Strengthen and develop these in specialist areas such as Sensory Integration, Positive Behaviour Support, Trauma Informed approaches.
- Support the impact of physical health needs.
- Provide high quality, comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group with complex needs.
- Work in an interdisciplinary way to assess service user’s needs, devise care plans and evaluate outcomes.
- Provide clinical advice and support for service users that present with behaviour that challenges and require support with their mental health.
- Work directly with service users, carers, colleagues and other service providers.
- Deliver training and education to other professionals/carers/family.
- To continue to develop Occupational Therapy provision within the service and drive innovation with support from the Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist and Professional Lead Occupational Therapist.
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About Us
The role sits within the Intensive Support Function of the East & North Specialist Learning Disability Service. You will be joining a highly dedicated and creative Occupational Therapy service and will be encouraged and supported to undertake learning and development opportunities both in clinical and leadership fields.
We are a supportive and forward-thinking team, with great peer networks; we actively promote learning and professional development with opportunities in both clinical and leadership fields of work.
Due to this being a community post access to a vehicle is essential.
The Intensive Support Team (IST) work intensively with adults (18+) with learning disabilities who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties or whose behaviours pose a challenge.
About Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
HPFT is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
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Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Contact Information
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Amanda Drake
- Job title: Professional Lead for LD Occupational Therapy
- Email address: amanda.drake1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07813348421
Sandi O'neill - E&N SLDS OT Team lead
- Telephone: 01438 792160
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