Child and Young Persons Eating Disorder Senior Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 per annum inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NG |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6226077/333-G-ED-0343-C |
Summary
A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
We are currently seeking two Occupational Therapists in our CYP team. One role is within the CYP core team and the other is in the Intensive Community Treatment Pathway (ICT).
CYP Community Occupational Therapist
• CYP Community ED Team work with young people up until 17 who have suspected or diagnosed EDs. The team provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with complex emotional, sensory, behavioural and psychological difficulties, offering intensive work with families/parents/carers to develop their parenting skills.
• Our highly experienced and dedicated multidisciplinary team is committed to offering the highest standards of care to help children and families regain their self-confidence. Adopting a solution focused approach to manage challenges and steer a course towards optimism, newly realised potential and a positive future for the child and their family network.
• We recognise that Band 6’s are often the backbone of our clinical teams and we will support their development both clinically and managerially. You will have opportunities to supervise staff, be an educator and have access to both internal and external training.
• Our approach is holistic and solution-focused, and our multidisciplinary ethos enables each child and family to return to their community with greater strengths and the ability to sustain positive changes.
• ICT team supports patients to prevent hospital admissions by providing intensive support in the community.
With support from the Head Occupational Therapist (OT) you will be completing OT assessments and interventions. In your OT role you will provide individual interventions and group work, using assessment tools and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment. You will also have opportunities to provide supervision of fieldwork placements to OT students and other team member.
You will also be trained in Family Based Treatment to be able to offer a family based treatment which is evidenced based approach working with family and carers to enhance the recovery journey of the young person
• There are many development and training opportunities within CNWL and the eating disorder service.
• You will also contribute to a wider eating disorder occupational team across the ageless service.
• Linked in with the CAMHS colleagues to also offer support with working with young people
• You will also be a part of OT network within CWNL- which provide more support to develop and receive wider training opportunities.
Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please on below videos
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE
• Specific to assessment the Occupational Therapist (OT) will utilise professional specific, evidence based assessment tools in order to establish a child’s/ young person’s baseline functional and performance capacity; from which recommendations can determine further on going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning, and social and educational participation.
• To establish links with other Occupational Therapists and Child and Family workers in interfacing inpatient and community CAMHS eating disorder teams to enable effective continuation of Occupational Therapy input if required.
• To support transitions for the young person to adult service. Or work with the young person as part of an ageless service as this develops within the service.
• To manage a defined caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs; using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.
• To integrate evidence based practice and skilful use of assessments & interventions with personal recovery principles in order to improve the child/young person’s’ quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and physical conditions; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the child/young person’s social and physical environment. This will include undertaking assessments and making recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.
Vaccination:
The successful applicants will be NHS employees and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies
This advert closes on Friday 26 Apr 2024
We are currently seeking two Occupational Therapists in our CYP team. One role is within the CYP core team and the other is in the Intensive Community Treatment Pathway (ICT).
CYP Community Occupational Therapist
• CYP Community ED Team work with young people up until 17 who have suspected or diagnosed EDs. The team provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with complex emotional, sensory, behavioural and psychological difficulties, offering intensive work with families/parents/carers to develop their parenting skills.
• Our highly experienced and dedicated multidisciplinary team is committed to offering the highest standards of care to help children and families regain their self-confidence. Adopting a solution focused approach to manage challenges and steer a course towards optimism, newly realised potential and a positive future for the child and their family network.
• We recognise that Band 6’s are often the backbone of our clinical teams and we will support their development both clinically and managerially. You will have opportunities to supervise staff, be an educator and have access to both internal and external training.
• Our approach is holistic and solution-focused, and our multidisciplinary ethos enables each child and family to return to their community with greater strengths and the ability to sustain positive changes.
• ICT team supports patients to prevent hospital admissions by providing intensive support in the community.
With support from the Head Occupational Therapist (OT) you will be completing OT assessments and interventions. In your OT role you will provide individual interventions and group work, using assessment tools and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment. You will also have opportunities to provide supervision of fieldwork placements to OT students and other team member.
You will also be trained in Family Based Treatment to be able to offer a family based treatment which is evidenced based approach working with family and carers to enhance the recovery journey of the young person
• There are many development and training opportunities within CNWL and the eating disorder service.
• You will also contribute to a wider eating disorder occupational team across the ageless service.
• Linked in with the CAMHS colleagues to also offer support with working with young people
• You will also be a part of OT network within CWNL- which provide more support to develop and receive wider training opportunities.
Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please on below videos
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE
• Specific to assessment the Occupational Therapist (OT) will utilise professional specific, evidence based assessment tools in order to establish a child’s/ young person’s baseline functional and performance capacity; from which recommendations can determine further on going care and treatment to enable optimum functioning, and social and educational participation.
• To establish links with other Occupational Therapists and Child and Family workers in interfacing inpatient and community CAMHS eating disorder teams to enable effective continuation of Occupational Therapy input if required.
• To support transitions for the young person to adult service. Or work with the young person as part of an ageless service as this develops within the service.
• To manage a defined caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs; using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment.
• To integrate evidence based practice and skilful use of assessments & interventions with personal recovery principles in order to improve the child/young person’s’ quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness and physical conditions; providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the child/young person’s social and physical environment. This will include undertaking assessments and making recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.
Vaccination:
The successful applicants will be NHS employees and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies
This advert closes on Friday 26 Apr 2024
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