Main area Adult Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week ((Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata) Job ref 325-6785178-COMM
Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Berkeley House Town Godalming Salary £39,205 - £47,084 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 16/01/2025 08:00
B6 Community Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen to come and join our dynamic Occupational Therapy team in Guilford and Waverley Community Mental Health Team for Older People.
We offer innovative ways of delivering evidence based and outcome measured occupational therapy. The post includes delivering individual and group occupational therapy interventions offering a clear care pathway. Interventions include:
* Memory Matters Programme – a 6 session group for people with early stages of dementia and their carers. The group provides an educational element based around promoting a healthy lifestyle for the brain (exercise, diet, mental stimulation, sleep, stress management, an active social life).
* Individual occupational therapy.
* Comprehensive occupational therapy assessments.
We use Model of Human Occupation to guide all our occupational therapy assessments and interventions. We are particularly focusing on embedding occupational science and neuroscience into our practice.
The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to offering extensive, co-ordinated CPD programmes including a robust supervision structure, care group meetings, Trust wide and core competence training and an annual conference.
Main duties of the job
Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:
* Provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
* Communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
* Contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
* Provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, support workers and activities coordinators (as appropriate).
* Provide occupational therapy student placements.
* Contribute to service development and audits.
* Take on the role of lead professional as appropriate.
The job will be within our Guildford/Waverley Older People Community Mental Health Team and be based at The Larches, Farnham Road Hospital/Berkeley House in Godalming. The postholder will be expected to work flexibly across the older people services to enable the delivery of the occupational therapy group programme.
Working for our organisation
* 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a maximum payment of £2,122)
* NHS Pension: employers contribution 20.86% from day one. One of the UK's best pension scheme
* Subsidised nursery places
* Car Scheme: tax saving up to £6,000
* Discounted Nuffield Gym Membership
* 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust Service) plus bank holiday (pro-rata)
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Occupational Therapy professional qualification
* HCPC Registration
* Completion of a Fieldwork Educators’ course
Experience
* Experience of using multiple occupational frames of reference and approaches
* Experience of using relevant occupational therapy assessment and implementing interventions
* Experience in applying knowledge of the impact of health and disability on occupational performance, participation and identity
* Evidence of an interest and skills in specialist area
* Evidence of clinical reasoning skills
* UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes
* Experience of contributing to service development/project work
* Experience as a supervisor
* Experience of group facilitation
* Experience of supporting students on placement
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Christina Long Job title Lead Occupational Therapist Email address christina.long@sabp.nhs.uk Telephone number 07500940878
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