Senior Occupational Therapist

St Andrews Northampton is currently recruiting for a Senior Occupational Therapist who have an in-depth understanding and knowledge of working with individuals who present with a variety of mental health conditions.

A bit about us

We are St Andrew’s. We are a thriving charity, and our vision is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

We help people to overcome barriers, and we work tirelessly to help people in our care to find hope.

Are you full of curiosity and ideas? Are you inspired to do the right thing every day, living by our CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence?

Come join us. Let's transform lives together.

The role

As a registered senior clinician, you would be joining a highly motivated, knowledgeable, and innovative OT team.  As an employee of St Andrews, you will adopt an inclusive and ‘can do’ attitude in approaching your work. 

You will demonstrate a good understanding of OT within secure services, including an application of risk assessment skills.  In sharing your experience of applying the OT process, you should also emphasise how you promote our specialism as a profession.

Leadership and highly tuned clinical reasoning are required to lead the therapy provided on the ward together with the experience of being a senior member of the ward team. The job will require you to supervise junior staff, develop others, and take responsibility for projects as required for service development.  You will be expected to both lead and attend activities to enhance your continuing professional development.

Continued professional development is supported, with access to a range of in-house CPD events, as well as an expectation to be involved in the development and training of OT students.  Further opportunities include networking opportunities with colleagues of the same and different grades within the service and The Charity. 

You should have:

• Experience working within a secure setting.
• Demonstrate post registration clinical expertise with minimum of 3 years
• Post-registration expertise in an adult mental health setting and working with women will be an added advantage
• Evidence of specialist training in the area of practice and ongoing CPD
• Ability to apply and promote OT skills, including carrying out specialised occupational assessments, setting clear occupational goals and facilitating a wide variety of therapeutic interventions
• Ability to manage highly complex and sensitive information using well-developed motivational and negotiating skills, representing the OT service in a variety of different situations
• Analytical skills involving skilled interpretation, comparison and reasoned judgement in complex situations
• Flexible planning and organisational skills required for the formulation and adjustment of a broad range of therapeutic activities and programmes within an occupational therapy and multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge and experience of clinical supervision
• The ability to manage own and other’s workload flexibly
• Knowledge of research techniques and experience of clinical audit
• Experience of day-to-day supervision of junior staff and students
• Interest in theoretical models of practice including the Model of Human Occupation and experience using vdt Model of Creative Ability will be an added advantage

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Our newly launched Electric Car scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.

Interested? Please apply