Perinatal Occupational Therapist

Job Overview

The services offered will be provided in line with the principles and ethos of recovery and social inclusion. The Band 6 Occupational Therapist will contribute their highly specialist knowledge and expertise in supporting this approach and will ensure that all interventions amplify an individual’s self-management skills.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a caseload of women in the perinatal period with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs, providing interventions which support and promote improved mental and physical health for mothers, babies and their families.
• Be responsible for conjunction with the OTs in the service to support the development and evaluation of evidence‑based OT practice within the perinatal service.
• Work in conjunction with senior staff in the MDT to support the development of the perinatal service.
• Actively liaise with the MDT and external services such as primary care, mat...