Advanced OT Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership of the Cambridge Locality Team as an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist You will be joining a service supporting working-age adults who have severe affective and psychotic disorders. The team offers care-coordination, a daily duty service, psychiatric assessments, medication reviews, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, family work & a wide variety of therapeutic interventions.

Recovery principles are embedded at the core of the locality teams & we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life. Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence

• You must have a full UK driving licence and be able to use a vehicle; public transport is not permitted.
• DVLA have reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries – for further information visit the DVLA website.

• As an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering coordinated care to a defined caseload.
• You will provide clinical leadership within the small OT team and across the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings, ensuring effective risk management, care planning, and clinical decision-making.
• You will work alongside the Service manager to complete investigations, manage complaints and subject access requests.
• You will support clinicians in managing complex cases, guide discharge planning, and promote smooth clinical throughput.
• You will demonstrate confident and effective leadership by chairing large, multi-agency meetings.
• You will lead on audits and quality improvement initiatives.
• You will deliver clinical supervision, conduct staff appraisals, and foster atender professional development within息the team.
• You will be involved in ensuring that the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the旧 zdrow< quality of life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.