Lead OT

Role Overview

The East of England Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative is recruiting to their newly remodelled alternative to SEDU admission service. They are looking to backfill a band 7 Lead Occupational Therapy role which, together with a second Occupational Therapist (also being recruited), will lead on Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions including the EMPSA. The post will be a secondment or a fixed term post for a 12 month period.

The service is hosted by both HPFT and CPFT and this post will be managed by HPFT.

• Work with the specialist multidisciplinary team.
• Provide OT and EMPSA assessments for service users of the Intensive service and create treatment plans from them.
• Support Service users to avoid specialist inpatient admission wherever possible.
• Advise the multidisciplinary team on learnings from OT interventions and recommended input.
• Supervise junior staff.
• Participate in generic initial assessments for those who might come into treatment.
• Coordinate and develop the OT provision.
• Work closely with nurses, dietitians, psychotherapists, consultant psychiatrists, support workers and particularly assistant therapy practitioners to provide a comprehensive and intensive formulation guided service that will support the service user to restore weight and remain at home whenever possible.
• Travel to bases across the east of England region as required and work online from home or from a local Trust base at times.

The service will use the EMPSA to assess service users at the beginning and end of treatment and tools such as the MOHO to assess a service user's functioning and support them to build the non-eating disordered parts of their lives.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.