Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6/7 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.
Location: Taunton & Yeovil
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Pay Rate: £30 - £35 per hour (assignment rate)
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties of the Occupational Therapist:
- Contribute to the delivery of the service offering assessment, formulation and treatment to young people and their families/carers within clinic and service user’s homes.
- Responsible for liaising and working with other professionals as appropriate, alongside the promotion and development in the service of a psychological perspective and the use of psychological approaches.
- Acting as a point of contact for patients, carers and referrers and discussing potential referrals with them.
- To carry out joint assessments of children and families presenting with a suspected Eating Disorder.
- To contribute to team formulations for services users with the CEDS-CYP multi-disciplinary team.
- To devise treatment plans with the CEDS-CYP multi-disciplinary team and assist them to carry these through.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management planning for those presenting with high-risk behaviours.
- Liaise closely with colleagues across a range of care teams to provide timely, accurate and effective treatment, supporting non-specialist colleagues in carrying out direct work themselves wherever this is appropriate.
- Deliver evidence-based interventions to children, young people, and families/carers presenting with eating disorders and co-morbid mental health diagnoses.
- To be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team
Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
- 2 years experience of working within a CAMHS setting, ideally with some of this working with eating disorders / difficulties
- Have a therapeutic modality such as CBT, FT-AN, FT-BN, DBT, Family Therapy
- Recent NHS experience
- Registered with the HCPC
- Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle
Contact:
This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
