Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 274-11975-AC
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 4, St Georges Site, Lincoln
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Are you looking for new opportunities to further develop your interest and experience in eating disorders, be at the forefront of exciting new developments and making a real difference?
Come join our service-we have a bespoke opportunity which would enable you to utilise your specialist skills as a Band 6 AEDS Occupational Therapist.
Lincolnshire Eating Disorders Services are expanding countywide and are seeking an Occupational Therapist to join us in enhancing community services and improving experiences for service users and their carers.
We are looking for a creative and highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wants to join a well-established and rapidly expanding service. The team is truly multidisciplinary - currently consisting of a Service Manager, Team Manager; Consultant Psychiatrist; Clinical Psychologist; CBT Practitioners, Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Nurse Specialist; Dieticians; Community Support Worker, Assistant Practitioner, Occupational Therapy Assistant; Peer Support Worker, Psychological Interventions Facilitators and supportive administrative staff.
If you would like to discuss this post further, please contact Danielle Asquith, Team Manager or Charlotte Long, Service Manager on 01522 421632.
Main duties of the job
You will play an essential role in supporting the development and delivery of pathways within the Adult Eating Disorders Service within LPFT and provide specialist treatments for all with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and/or Atypical Eating Disorders in the community on an outpatient basis across the county.
A key part of this role will be supporting the ongoing development of the service as part of the mental health community transformation programme.
The Multi-Disciplinary Team as a service provides the latest in evidence based NICE psychological interventions to adults with an eating disorder. The team’s multi-disciplinary approach to the assessment and treatment of individuals is a real strength and an Occupational Therapist’s contribution would be a positive addition and much valued.
You will have access to clinical and professional supervision on a both 1:1 and group basis. Mentoring/coaching is available from the Associate Director of Allied Health Professions or Consultant Occupational Therapist. There is an active network of Allied Health Professionals working across the Trust and county you can join.
We offer a comprehensive induction programme and a wide range of CPD opportunities to enable you to further develop your skills in relation to your role and profession.
Staff wellbeing is important to us. We are open to discussing flexible working patterns which enable you to have a positive work/life balance.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. This will include a balance of both generic and specific Occupational Therapy work.
To attend multi-disciplinary meetings/ case conferences/CPA reviews for patients on their caseload
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients’ mental health care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of occupational therapists in the team is of the highest standard of clinical care
To manage referrals and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
To communicate and liaise with others to ensure appropriate assessments, interventions and reviews are in place.
Work with individuals to assess their physical and mental health needs , identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them and/or their care givers to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour to support community living or facilitate discharge.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk to support community living or facilitate discharge.
To assess carers’ and family’s needs and signpost or refer them to the relevant support.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to maintain or develop independent living skills to support the individual to remain in their own home or facilitate discharge to their residence of choice.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making within the Adult Eating Disorders Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Currently an Occupational Therapist
- HCPC registered
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
- APPLE/ L’APPLE or equivalent placement practice educator accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Training in AMPS
- Management and leadership training
- Membership of relevant special interest groups
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of working with adults with complex needs or adults with mental health needs and skills that is transferable.
- Experience of managing clinical risk and making autonomous decisions based on analysis of complex presenting problems
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with Eating Disorders
- Experience of sensory needs assessment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Highly developed skills in occupational therapy assessment and a range of interventions
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Excellent understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to work independently and collectively
Desirable criteria
- Equipment including prescription
- Additional knowledge/training in sensory processing
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Danielle Asquith
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 421632
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