Occupational Therapist - Community Rehabilitation
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
The community rehabilitation service provides care and support for people with complex mental health difficulties that have impacted on their daily lives. They explore and provide a wide range of goal-based interventions with people to support their recovery. Individualised programmes of care are developed to enhance independence, build meaningful activities and improved health and wellbeing. There is an emphasis on holding hope for people in their recovery. The programmes are offered in peoples own homes and can involve work in the local communities. The successful candidate will be expected to advocate for the people in their care and promote a recovery orientated focus throughout.
The post requires lone working and will include 1 to 1 sessions and specific group work. The core hours of the post are 09:00 till 17:00 week days, Monday to Friday. There is an expectation for some flexible working between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00 including some evenings, weekends and public holidays if there is a service need.
The service operates in three localities in East Kent, with each team consisting of a combination of community mental health nurses, occupational therapists and support from third sector workers. Collaborative working is essential, with close partnerships with Social care, individual care providers and Housing services.
Main duties of the job
1. To assist in identifying, developing and providing the Occupational Therapy contribution within the multi-disciplinary service in accordance with the needs of service users and the requirements of the service.
2. To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic interventions for identified service users.
3. To manage a defined caseload of service users with occupational needs using evidence based, service user centred, hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention orientated principles and practice.
Training, Qualifications & Registration
* Qualified and registered as an Occupational Therapist with Health and Care Professions Council
Experience
* Experience of (either through previous employment or student placements) of people with mental health problems.
* Experience of (either through previous employment or student placements) of working with individuals and groups.
* Experience of applying the OT process.
* Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Knowledge & Skills
* Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement.
* Knowledge in the application of relevant OT theoretical models, and approaches relevant to service user group.
* Basic factual knowledge of the importance of enabling people to do the things they want, need or are expected to do to support them in being well in life.
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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