Occupational Therapist Band 7 Luton, East of England, England
Job description
Occupational Therapist
To provide highly effective leadership, individualised and specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment within the BLMK CAMHS Tier 4 Inpatient Unit. Focus is on engaging on community resources to establish robust activities of daily living to enable the young person to be discharged.
To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and contribute an occupation-focused understanding of a young person’s difficulties and needs.
To provide Occupational Therapy that is sensitive to the developmental, cultural and highly complex mental health needs of the young people in the Service.
To prepare effective pathways to care within the BLMK CAMHS Tier 4 Inpatient Unit.
To provide clinical supervision to qualified staff and students.
Evergreen is a recently developed specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) unit in Luton. In 2021, NHS England confirmed additional funding to develop an interim acute mental health inpatient unit for Children and Young People in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
The development of Evergreen has been being done in conjunction with children, parents and carers who have experience of in-patient admission. Young people are helping us plan the ethos of the unit, recruit the staff and think about how we can deliver the best care.
Evergreen provides specialist, short-term care for children and young people aged 13-17 with severe or complex mental health difficulties. You will be working alongside a diverse multi-disciplinary team that reflects the population that we serve. Our vision is to make a positive difference in young people’s lives by providing the highest quality mental health service to our local communities, to help them overcome some of life’s challenges.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
ELFT is working in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL), which provides mental health services in Milton Keynes.
In the long term, a dedicated and permanent CAMHS unit will be developed in the proposed new build that the trust is developing in Bedford. This post is substantive, as staff recruited into this role will have the opportunity to transition into the permanent unit.
Please see the job description for more information on this particular role.
For further information, please contact:
Sean Dumbell, Matron - [email protected]
