Occupational Therapist
4 months ago
Job summary
We are looking for a registered Occupational Therapist who has a drive to improve the therapeutic provision within adult mental health.
In return you will be joining our supportive, friendly, and responsive Allied Health Professional (AHP) team, with an established commitment to staff wellbeing and professional development. We work hard, deliver great results and you will be warmly welcomed to help us deliver the next steps of our strategy.
With our unique seaside city location on the South coast our mental health services have been redesigned to support professional identity, wellbeing and responsiveness, providing services that are wanted and needed.
The model is designed to enable:
- Relational consistency during transitions within mental health services to improve patient experience.
- Access to a varied range of intervention choices including Sensory Awareness groups and the evidence-based Occupation Matters Programme.
- Supporting people with mental health issues to live well in their communities.
Ensuring our services are co-produced with those that use them is essential to our Trust and professional values. We are proud of every member of our established AHP Service, which includes Activity Co-ordinators, Therapy Assistants, OT Apprentices as well as registered OT and PT colleagues. We will welcome and support the development of your leadership and improvement skills as you strengthen your career development portfolio to realise our vision.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for the provision of a high-quality Occupational Therapy (OT) service, ensuring that the service delivered meets Trust and professional standards and develops in line with Government, Clinical, Professional, and local guidelines.
You will be key to delivering occupational focused assessment, formulations, and interventions for a caseload of patients with complex functional needs at hospital, in their homes and communities. Facilitating people's journey through mental health clinical pathways within acute, primary, and secondary care. Focusing on recovery, supporting discharge, and preventing avoidable hospital admission.
You will link with the Community Mental Health Team MDT which will include attending MDT meetings to ensure the OT perspective to clinical discussions and enabling appropriate OT support.
To be responsible for supporting, developing, and evaluating an evidence-based therapeutic group programme.
About us
e have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.
Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.
The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Degree level or higher in Occupational Therapy. Health and Care Professions Council registration.
Desirable
Training qualification to teach students on placement or equivalent experience Specialist post graduate training in a range of subjects relevant to mental health/acute mental illness/challenging behaviours-
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