Eating Disorder Lead Occupational Therapist and Adult Intensive Team Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Occupational Therapist to join our Eating Disorders Service as a Team Leader and Lead OT. This is a full-time position, based in the London's Kensington & Chelsea.

This is an integrated Eating Disorders Day Programme providing an enhanced level of care in the community following either specialist inpatient treatment or a step-up care from the community.

The post holder will hold day-to-day operational management responsibility of the intensive pathway service and supporting the multidisciplinary team to provide the care and treatment. You will provide clinical professional input into the individuals on the day programme.

The post holder will also be working to lead the eating disorder team of Occupational Therapist working embedded across different teams and pathways across our service.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, service user and carer focused. You will ensure the service is well led, with motivated staff, safe and with good outcomes for adults and their carers

The 3 core overarching duties are

Team Management and Leadership

Specialist OT Clinical Interventions

OT Leadership

These are expanded more within the job description and person specification.

About us

The Eating Disorders team is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures to offer regular supervision. This is a great opportunity for you to join our team to support in the delivery of high-quality adults eating disorders services for North West London.

We are looking for someone with the right attitude, skills and knowledge who share our passion to deliver the best quality care experience for the person and their family network.

Also, come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 300 Occupational Therapists (OTs) in CNWL. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your dual skills.OT in CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes an AHP director, Trust wide Professional Head of OT, borough and specialist Head OTs. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession at all levels - both strategically and operationally.Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession and is underpinned by our OT R& D strategy, R& D specialist groups and OT clinical networks. This enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our OTs reach their full potential at every stage of their career.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A more detail break down of the components of the are

• Team Management and Leadership
  • Team management
  • People Management
  • Supervision and appraisals
  • Resource Management
  • Service Development
• Specialist OT Clinical Interventions
• OT Leadership
  • Professional Development
  • Build partnerships within the national ED OT Services and Trust OTs

Again, these can be found within the JD and PS attached to this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• OT degree and HCPC registration
• Experience post qualification working with mental health

Desirable

• Sensory Training (Integration)
• Leadership Course such as 21CLP

Experience

Essential

• o Interest in working with Eating Disorders
• o Experience of caseload management and throughput
• o Experience of managing a clinical team including recruitment, supervision and management of staff
• o Experience of training staff
• o Experience of effective partnership working, with external providers

Desirable

• o Experience of working in a Day Programme
• o Experience of working in a Intensive Pathway eg: ICT, DP or HTT

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• oDemonstrates an appropriate level of OT specialist skills and knowledge for the job banding as an OT
• oUnderstanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of Eating Disorders Services
• oAbility to assess complex health & wellbeing needs/conditions & develop, monitor & review care plans which facilitate the individual's recovery
• oDemonstrates ability to assess and manage risk
• oHighly developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic alliances to be developed & maintained with patients who have multiple & complex needs and their families
• oDemonstrates strong leadership skill and qualities and ability to support others through periods of change
• oAble to use data and information systems to track activity and performance

Desirable

• Demonstrate the ability to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop joint planning and support arrangements
• Understands and support the teams to be able to adapt communication and interventions accordingly

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre

1 Nightingale Place

London

SW10 9NG

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333-G-ED-0385