Job summary
Be the difference in your patients lives!
Schoen Clinic Newbridge are looking for a Lead Occupational Therapist to manage a defined caseload of young people with eating disorders using evidence based and client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. You will lead the OT team to ensure effective and high quality delivery of the group programme alongside individual patient and family support.
Main duties of the job
As
a Lead Occupational Therapist you will need to ensure familiarity with the Occupational Therapy Pathway at
Newbridge House whilst ensuring you have the ability to carry out, and
supervise others to carry out the range of occupational therapy assessments,
interventions and group work.
About us
Our culture of world-class medical excellence is based on our five key values:
- Accountable: Taking ownership of the things I say and do
- Caring: Treating others as I would like to be treated
- Collaborative: Working together to make a winning team
- Courageous: Being proud to be different and challenge the norm
- Determined: Seeing things through to meet and exceed expectations
Schoen Clinic Newbridge is a highly specialised treatment hospital for children, teens and young adults aged 8-18 years with eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and OSFED. We widely regarded as one of the best eating disorder hospitals for children, teens and young people in the United Kingdom. Schoen Clinic Newbridge is based on the outskirts of Sutton Coldfield, just off the A452 and 4 miles from the local train station.
We provide inpatient care and private short-stay options for children and teens aged 8-18 years and also offer a day care treatment programme where patients attend on set days, during the day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working with patients to identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan.
Planning and implementing individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the patient, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
Monitoring and evaluating treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention.
Ensure that up to date electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with professional and Newbridge House Policy.
Delegate work as appropriate to Occupational Therapy team, monitor, review and provide additional support and training as required
Provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues, or delegate appropriately to experienced senior Occupational Therapists.
Undertake annual appraisals with junior colleagues, or delegate appropriately to experienced senior Occupational Therapists.
Understand and exercise a personal duty of care for use of resources i.e. clinical and educational materials.
Oversee the use of and recording of the OT budget.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a Senior Occupational Therapist in mental health and/or CAMHS.
- Experience as a clinical supervisor.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Experience facilitating and reviewing group work.
- Experience as a student educator
- Knowledge of current best practice in occupational therapy in eating disorders.
- Experience of using standardised assessment tools.
- Experience communicating effectively with a range of people and conveying complex and difficult information.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of the OT team.
- Ability to keep accurate, up to date clinical records and statistics.
- Ability to critically evaluate research and to apply findings to practice.
- Understanding of Safeguarding legislation and implications for practice.
- Understanding of national guidelines and legislation related to health and social care.
- Experience chairing meetings and disseminating information.
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues.
- Money handling and budget recording skills.
Desirable
- Previous experience working with young people with Eating Disorders
- Experience of completing written risk assessments.
- Experience of working with young people with Autism.
- Experience of undertaking audits and/or research.
- Experience presenting at conferences.
- Leadership experience.
- Experience of Health and Safety, Quality Assurance and risk management.
- Experience of being a budget holder.
Qualifications
Essential
- Dip COT/BSc OT/MSc OT
- HCPC Registration
- RCOT Registration
Desirable
- Relevant specialist training e.g. MOHO, EMPSA, Sensory Integration, ADOS
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Schoen Clinic
Address
Newbridge House
Chester Road
Streetly
Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands
B74 3NE