Main area: Secure Care
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am-5pm - flexibility can be requested)
Job ref: 436-6952490
Site: FIRST community services building
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 12/03/2025
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
Band 6- Secure Care community OT
Forensic Intensive Recovery Support Team
Diploma, BSC or MSC in Occupational Therapy and current HCPC registration is essential for this post.
Are you ready for a new and exciting career opportunity? Want to be part of a team highly commended in 2024 for innovation and improvement?
We have a band 6 OT vacancy in a highly respected and creative OT team that provides community care for those preparing to leave secure care offering transition planning in collaboration with the in-patient OT teams. You will work with the FIRST MDT to provide recovery focused life skills interventions to support those living in the community.
The F.I.R.S.T Occupational Therapy service comprises of qualified Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors, and an employment specialist. The OT team is integral to the wider multi-disciplinary team and diverse recovery team.
Main duties of the job
Key tasks:
1. Provide a professional consultative role within an MDT.
2. Screen new referrals and consult with referrers.
3. Apply the OT process to develop collaborative goals and outcomes for our service users.
4. Deliver group and individual intervention in secure care and the community to promote life skills and support transition.
5. Manage challenging behaviours and manage risk.
We will offer you:
1. A warm welcome and induction package
2. Weekly meetings as a team to manage cases, referrals, and secure care & team updates.
3. Flexible working opportunities.
4. Opportunity to develop creative/innovative ideas.
5. Personal and professional development.
6. Opportunity for leadership and management developments through in-house roles and formal training.
7. Support to engage with the Trust secure care AHP and OT peer groups.
8. Access to a range of clinical supervision or reflective sessions.
The aim is to ensure that people with a serious mental illness, learning disabilities or autism requiring secure services experience high quality, specialist care as close to home as appropriately possible.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidates will need to demonstrate compassion for the challenges our service users face in transitions from secure care and from an occupational perspective assess the impact that mental illness, trauma, learning disabilities or autism and long-term institutionalisation have on functioning.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BSc, MSC, Occupational Therapy
* Post grad professional qualification in relevant field e.g. sensory, leadership
Skills and Experience
* Can demonstrate experience of working in a mental health setting
* Can demonstrate how mental health impacts daily functioning
* References the role of secure care and facilitating discharge/experience of community work
* Demonstrates the use of a clinical model for formulating treatment
* Provides evidence of working collaboratively with MDT to provide care and treatment
* Evidences a collaborative recovery focused approach
* Demonstrates organisational skills
* Gives examples of managing difficult situations, conflict, differences of opinion
* Evidences use of personal reflection
The Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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