This satisfying and rewarding role, sits within the Community Service Line, which includes all community based mental health teams, such as our Integrated Recovery Hubs, Recovery and Support Teams and Early Intervention services. Our teams are expanding with new and exciting roles following a period of Transformation, resulting in new opportunities for Occupational Therapists (OTs) to work as pure OTs, fully using their innovation and creativity, to support clients with complex mental health needs to recover and step down from Mental Health Services.
The post involves working closely with our colleagues in the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), in particular, working with Recovery Support Workers and Employment Specialists, with whom we have a close professional relationship, invested in supporting clients with their occupational goals. We are committed to offering an excellent service and actively promote Occupational Therapy within the teams.
The OT will also promote working with our partners in the Involvement Team, to encourage service users and carers to feel supported and involved in the development with our services, as well as developing relationships with wider and external community organisations, such as social prescribers and peer support workers.
About
The Occupational Therapy team across the Trust is well managed with a thought through leadership structure. OTs joining the Trust, have commented favourably about the accessibility and responsiveness of senior OT managers, who are committed to developing and supporting staff. We also have a dedicated Allied Health Professional Workforce team and Practice Development team. As such, we can offer:
* Good quality and regular supervision and appraisals
* Evidence-based practice to ensure the clinical effectiveness of our interventions.
* A menu of high-quality OT interventions, which deliver consistency and clarity across the Community Service line.
* A centralised online system to access MOHO manuals and assessments, and helpful guidance to support staff with building confidence is using MOHO tools.
* Quarterly learning events for OTs. Recent events have included sensory profiling, vocational work and dynamic ways of utilising the Model of Human Occupation, focusing on volition and motivation.
* Special interest peer supervision groups for sensory profiling and physical health/equipment assessments.
* Regular forums for Community OTs, to discuss professional development and to keep updated with relevant business matters.
* Regular organised opportunities to discuss career progression with senior members of the OT management team.
* A supportive Preceptorship / Preceptorship Plus programme for developing OTs.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
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