Occupational Therapist

2 months ago


Salford, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT Full time

Job summary

Cromwell House Community Mental Health Team are excited to be recruiting a motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join their successful, friendly, and supportive team. This job is being advertised with the option of this being a B5 to 6 progression post or a B6 post. You will be working in a multidisciplinary team which includes another B6 and B7 Occupational Therapist. The MDT prioritizes occupational therapy as a core intervention to support service user's recovery. Occupational therapy pathways are at the heart of the Salford community transformation model.

Cromwell House offers great opportunities to continue your career progression, with regular supervision, CPD sessions and training. We are focused on staff wellbeing, offering regular clinical and line management supervision, and building links with other community teams to share learning and provide support.

Regular clinical supervision will be offered and encouraged from the Salford Community Senior Practitioner for Occupational Therapy who is based within Cromwell House. There is also the opportunity to participate in monthly Salford Community Occupational therapy meetings and bi-monthly Allied Health Professionals CPD sessions.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will undertake a full-time Occupational Therapist role within the team, focusing solely on delivering an evidence-based Occupational therapy service provision. You will be supported to maintain an occupational focus in your work, undertaking Occupational Therapy assessments and specific work associated within the role of an Occupational Therapist . You will work with a defined caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental health needs. In addition to this you will take a lead on delivering recovery focused groups in the community and support with line management of junior OT members of staff.

We are a committed, integrated service that strives to provide quality recovery-based support to people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties within the Salford area.

The post holder will be supported and encouraged to provide quality first-line psychosocial assessments, as part of the GMMH community teams duty role and work proactively in forging professional working relationship with multi-agencies. Team members work occasional weekend shifts as part of the GMMH acute care pathway provisions of care, on a rota basis. However, this is a large team, so the frequency of this is low.

The Allied Health Professional Lead for Salford is a core member of the Salford Senior Leadership Team, where contribution and leadership from all professional groups is strongly encouraged.

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over6,400members of staff, who deliver services from more than160locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits

Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years Excellent pension Cycle to work scheme Salary sacrifice car scheme Wellbeing programme Blue Light Card Discounts Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered OT

Experience

Essential

Previous experience working as a qualified Occupational Therapist Experience of working in a mental health field

Desirable

Experience of working in a community mental health setting

Knowledge

Desirable

Understanding of using MOHO Knowledge of working with psychosis

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