Occupational Therapist - Mental Health Reablement - Oxford

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Are you an occupational therapist committed to working in mental health and keen to use your professional skills to support individuals’ recovery?

Are you interested in being involved in service innovation and part of bringing change to local mental health delivery?

Oxford City + NE Adult mental health team are leading the way locally having created a team of occupational therapists and experienced support staff to provide mental health reablement interventions. This team provides short, intensive, activation focussed interventions to support service users to increase, reconnect to, or initiate activities of meaning to support recovery from a period of mental health distress.

The team is embedded in the AMHT working alongside the core delivery provided by MDT key workers, team managers and the medical team to support service user recovery.

Part of the role is collecting evidence to support the local evaluation of the reablement model using a combination of patient reported outcome measures, wellbeing scales and occupational therapy assessments. You will contribute to collecting the evidence for the impact of the intervention for service user recovery alongside providing wider evidence for the effectiveness of occupational therapists in community mental health.

Main duties of the job

The Band 6 Reablement Occupational Therapist will:

• provide specialist occupational therapy assessment and treatment interventions.
• lead the ‘recovery through activity’ group program
• carry a complex caseload as a member of the MDT
• supervise members of the team
• support the development of the occupational therapy service provision within the setting.

If you are interested but unconfident about this step or want to know more to know if this is the role for you, than please get in touch.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The team consists of qualified Occupational Therapists and skilled support staff who deliver up to 4 contacts per week for a maximum of 12 weeks.

The role of the Band 6 Reablement Occupational Therapist is to provide specialist occupational therapy assessment and treatment interventions for the specified service user group, carry a complex caseload as a member of the MDT, supervise members of the team, and support the development of the occupational therapy service provision within the setting.

See attached JD/PS for more detail

Person specification

Qualifications and training

• OT degree
• HCPC registration
• Further training relevant to the role

• APPLE or equivalent student placement training
• Sensory training
• Trained in use of specific models/assessment relevant to the role

Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience
• Experience of working with the mental health service users in a variety of settings
• Experience working with a range of standardised and non-standardised OT assessments

• Experience of working collaboratively with carers to meet both the needs of the carer and the user
• Groupwork experience
• Experience of supervising and developing staff
• Experience of undertaking audit work/using outcome measures

Knowledge

• Understanding of Model of Human Occupation and it's application
• Knowledge of barriers to occupational engagement
• Understanding of the recovery model
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing