Overview
Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist looking for an exciting new challenge to develop your skills within a community mental health care setting? A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a for a full-time Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our well-established Adult Community Mental Health Team in the multicultural city of Bradford, working for Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust at Bradford City CMHT based at Horton Park Centre.
As a service we have developed innovative ways of delivering recovery focused intervention to support people in their individual recovery journey including a variety of occupationally focused interventions.
The team comprises of Doctors, Occupational Therapist, Nurses, Psychologists, Art Therapist, Social workers, support and peer workers delivering a recovery focused service based upon our Care Closer To Home initiative. The ideal candidate will have a dynamic approach to working as part of the MDT whilst delivering the core skills and values of Occupational Therapy. The successful candidate will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of working age adults and will offer specific Occupational Therapy interventions, alongside developing skills in care coordinating service users with an occupational therapy focus.
Closing- 11th September 2025
Shortlisting- 12th September 2025
Interview- 22nd September 2025
Responsibilities
* To manage a clinical caseload as part of a specialist community mental health team
* To ensure safe, appropriate and effective rehabilitation interventions that meet the needs of the target population through advice, advocacy and professional knowledge as an Occupational Therapist.
* To input evidence-based specialist Occupational Therapy skills to the multi-disciplinary service.
* To be a proactive team member in respect of communication, team administration, quality of service and service development.
* To provide supervision and support to colleagues.
* To provide good quality practice placement education.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have a dynamic approach to working as part of the MDT whilst delivering the core skills and values of Occupational Therapy.
Important dates
* Closing date: 11th September 2025
* Shortlisting: 12th September 2025
* Interview: 22nd September 2025
Benefits
* We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Plus many more.
* We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
* BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jason Kinder
Job title: Team Leader
Email address: jason.kinder@bdct.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07925 894283
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