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Job Title: Senior Occupational Therapist (CAMHS)
Location: Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
Contract type: 1 year contract,
Hours of work: 28 hours per week.
Salary: Senior Grade Occupational Therapist scale, at a point in line with Government pay policy.

Excel Healthcare looking to recruit a CORU registered, innovative and motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to join a CAMHS Multidisciplinary team in Mullingar. This is a 1 year specified purpose contract, 28 hours per week.

Purpose of the Role:

• You will work autonomously and collaboratively with team members providing services at clinical bases and within clients’ homes, as well as a range of other settings as appropriate.

• You will be managing the Occupational Therapy Service across the CAMHS services, using evidence-based and patient-centered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, which provide patients with the confidence, skills, and coping strategies required for independent living.

• The OT will carry a complex caseload and will complete occupational therapy-specific assessment & interventions.

• As part of the MDT, the OT will complete some generic mental health work, such as initial intake assessments, and will hold a key working role.

• The OT will be responsible for the supervision of a staff-grade Occupational Therapist.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the maintenance of standards of practice of self and staff appointed to clinical/designated area(s).

• Be responsible for managing own caseload and for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of treatment programmes for service users according to service standards.

• Participate in the integrated discharge planning process in line with the HSE Code of Practice.

• Be responsible for the day-to-day running of a designated service area(s) by supervising staff, prioritising and allocating work, and promoting positive staff morale and team working in conjunction with the Occupational Therapist Manager.

• In conjunction with the Occupational Therapist Manager, lead service planning by anticipating the changing needs of the service and service users.

• Foster and maintain professional working relationships with colleagues, frontline managers, and other healthcare personnel in the team.

• Ensure the quality of documentation of all assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, reports, and discharge summaries are in accordance with local service and professional standards.

• Communicate verbally and/or in writing results of assessments, treatment/intervention programmes, and recommendations to the team and relevant others in accordance with service policy.

• Participate in teams as appropriate, communicating and working in co-operation with other team members.

• Attend clinics, review meetings, team meetings, case conferences, ward rounds, etc., as designated by the Occupational Therapist Manager.

• Ensure that staff in the designated service area(s) arrange and carry out duties in a timely manner, within settings appropriate to service users’ needs, and in line with local policy/guidelines.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• BSc in Occupational Therapy or equivalent.

• Hold full CORU registration.

• Have three years of full-time post-qualification clinical experience.

• Demonstrate the ability to lead on planning and managing the delivery of an optimum service in an effective and resourceful manner.

• Substantial experience of working within Mental Health, preferably with CAMHS.

• Demonstrate the ability to lead by example and adapt leadership style to suit the demands of the situation and the people involved.

• Demonstrate an ability to manage and develop self and others in a busy working environment.

• Demonstrate the ability to work independently as well as part of a team and collaborate well with others.

What you need to do now:

For more information about this opportunity, please reach out confidentially to Charlene Cooke by email at or telephone +353 89 9455139 (EXCLCHAR).