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Site: Surrey Heath Older People Community Mental Health Team
Town: Frimley, Camberley, Surrey
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/03/2025 23:59
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Job Overview
Do you want to work in Older Adults Mental Health Services? Would you like to develop your skills in this area?
Come and be part of our dynamic Occupational Therapy (OT) service within Surrey Heath Community Mental Health Team for Older People (SH CMHT OP). You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team in providing specialist input into our Care Home Pathway and the SH CMHT OP based at Theta in Frimley, Camberley, not far from the M3.
SH CMHT OP is part of the SH Integrated Care Team and provides an 8-8 service (shifts are typically 8am – 4pm and 12pm – 8pm), Monday - Friday, except Bank holidays.
You will be working with two other occupational therapists, and your role includes providing high quality OT assessments, individual and group interventions to the community, high quality OT assessments and individual interventions to our Care Home Pathway service and support with duty.
We use Model of Human Occupation to guide our OT assessments and interventions. As a service, we have developed innovative ways of delivering OT to support people in their individual recovery journey, including occupationally focused group programmes, such as Lifestyle Matters Programme and Memory Matters Programme.
We have a robust CPD offer which includes core competence training, forums, robust supervision structure, and more.
Main Duties of the Job
Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:
* To 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.
* To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
* To contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
* To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, support workers and activities coordinators (as appropriate).
* To provide occupational therapy student placements.
* To contribute to service development and audits.
* To take on the role of lead professional as appropriate.
Working for Our Organisation
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.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
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 see the job description document attached for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Occupational Therapy professional qualification (HCPC)
* 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.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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
Additionally please contact:
Lovemore Munowenyu at lovemore.munowenyu@sabp.nhs.uk or Jonathan Kanyanta at jonathan.kanyanta@sabp.nhs.uk
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