Occupational Therapist Intensive (IST)

Our team supports adults with learning disabilities who have complex needs. Our goal is to support our service users to remain in their community at a time of crisis, by offering additional mental health support, therapy, and treatment. We work to source appropriate accommodation for service users to allow them to return from out of area placements and work closely with services supporting young people to prevent them having to leave Peterborough unnecessarily.
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to work with our multidisciplinary team. If you are successful, you will be providing input in to Positive Behaviour Support and trauma informed care. A key part of your role will be further enhancing the MDT and supporting the team with developing an understanding of people's difficulties to enhance the service users care. As a team we are passionate about development and providing the best possible care for our service users.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will participate in multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency working within the IST and with Key partners and contribute to the design of individually tailored services for adult with learning disabilities and additional mental illness/challenging behaviour.
Developing of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans, Developing of service users skills to support PBS. To undertake Sensory assessments give specialist input in to accommodation using, the Safe Home Environment Assessment (SHEA) is designed to help identify risk behaviours or individual preferences that may need to be considered in the physical environment., The successful candidate will participate in the delivery of a specialist LD Occupational Therapy under the guidance of the lead Occupational Therapist by managing a caseload of clients with complex learning disabilities.
To provide professional supervision to other staff /students as appropriate including appraisal and professional development particularly mandatory training.
As an autonomous practitioner to manage a specialist case load providing
assessment, identification, and treatment of the health needs of adults with a learning disability.
MDT working will include being involved in developing of Positive Behaviour support plans, sensory Assessments, using active support to support meaningful engagement, being part of developing working formulations and bespoke staff training
To undertake specialist OT assessments. i.e. Sensory Integration.
To use specialist skills and clinical reasoning to work with clients with a learning disability, whose health need relates to the effect of their learning disability upon their occupational performance, enabling the client in the areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure. In conjunction with the individual their family, paid carers and external agencies.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, dedicated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Intensive Support Team (IST) for adults with learning disabilities, based in Peterborough. This team offers you a unique opportunity to develop your skills and understanding both of working with adults with learning disabilities and of the system and partners. This is a part-time post which with our OT already in post gives fulltime cover to the team.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development., Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
+ Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
+ Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
+ Children and young people's mental health services;
+ Children's community services in Peterborough;
+ Social care;
+ Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.