Overview
Join us as a Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band 6) in our brand‑new Assertive Outreach Team. This role is based in Cambridge or Peterborough and involves delivering specialist OT assessments and interventions underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation and recovery principles. The focus is on empowering service users to achieve independence, overcome barriers and reach their vocational and employment goals.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
* Deliver a high‑quality, evidence‑based OT service within the Assertive Outreach Team, supporting adults with complex mental health needs.
* Use specialist clinical skills and reasoning to manage a caseload with complex needs, working autonomously and referring to senior staff when necessary.
* Apply a high level of understanding of the effects of mental and physical health conditions on occupational performance, providing training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service user’s social and physical environment.
* Collaborate with service users to promote vocational rehabilitation and act as a team resource/specialist in vocational rehabilitation and employment.
* Deliver specialist occupational‑focused interventions, including sensory integration approaches and enabling/reablement approaches.
* May undertake the role of care co‑ordinator for a defined clinical caseload of service users with complex mental health needs.
* Ensure all care planning involves the service user and, where appropriate, the carer, collaboratively identifying, pursuing and reviewing goals.
* Plan and implement specialist individual and/or group interventions collaboratively to enable service users to achieve valued goals and desired occupational performance outcomes.
* Promote equality of outcome (including physical health) for people who experience mental health distress.
* Promote social inclusion and physical and mental well‑being using evidence‑based practice.
* Travel independently around the county; hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle (public transport is not sufficient).
Qualifications & Requirements
* Full UK driving licence with the ability to travel independently around the county.
* Access to a private vehicle; public transport limits service delivery.
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