Specialist Occupational Therapist

at  Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Hawkesbury Lodge i s a 20 bedded mixed sex rehabilitation unit based within the Longford area of Coventry.
It provides inpatient recovery-based rehabilitation for adults who have been experiencing difficulty with maintaining their mental well being and living in the community. The residents may be admitted from the community or an acute inpatient setting, and through their journey with us are looking to recover the skills, roles, routines and right support to be able to live well.
The role of the Occupational Therapist is integral to the multidisciplinary recovery approach with the residents on their rehabilitation journey. The post offers genuine opportunity to influence and shape how things are done here.
To develop, provide and evaluate effective occupational therapy with the residents, and contribute to the maintenance and development of the therapeutic environment within the busy unit.
To work with the residents to identify, achieve and maintain interest in what they want and need to do, and help them continue to grow and develop their potential to the point that they can sustain it in a longer term environment.
The post is based within a multidisciplinary team of recovery support workers, psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists and the community Enablement Team. Professional supervision is from the Lead Occupational Therapist, the post holder will work directly with the Occupational Therapist based at the other rehabilitation unit and those within the Enablement Team. There are professional training opportunities in occupational therapy and sensory integration. The unit is part of a three year transformation program which provides lots of opportunity to get involved with various aspects of service development.
Please see the job description for full details.
Take a lead role in the development, provision and evaluation of occupational therapy in the rehabilitation and recovery inpatient setting.
To ensure occupational therapy makes a significant and specialist contribution to services users’ recovery and preparation for discharge.
To contribute to the assessment of referrals to the rehabilitation service.
Assess service users using a variety of occupational therapy assessment tools, specialised observational and communication skills in the domains of daily living, vocation and leisure.
Assess impact of mental and physical health needs and neurodiversity on service users functional ability, interaction and emotional regulation.
Plan, develop and evaluate need for complex packages of care.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the therapeutic environment and routine within the rehabilitation and recovery inpatient setting.
To provide professional leadership, supervision and guidance to identified junior staff (Recovery Support Workers, students).
To be responsible for managing high standards of clinical care and maintaining service delivery based on sound clinical and professional judgement.
To have a detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (i.e. acute inpatient, community mental health, voluntary sector, social services, housing), including their eligibility criteria and access procedures, in order to be able to appropriately sign post, work in collaboration and refer on.
To ensure effective communication and working relationships with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and other key partners.
Provide a learning environment and assessment of practice where required/ appropriate for students of all disciplines

Please refer the Job description for details