The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Service is a new and developing service that works with people with complex severe and enduring mental illness (psychotic illnesses) and their families within their local communities. The service will provide specialist assessment, treatment, and support to stabilize people's symptoms and help them gain/regain their skills and confidence to live successfully in the community - adopting a team approach to care delivery.
The service has strong working relationships with other services both internally and externally, and is co-located with other mental health teams. We promote regular CPD opportunities both internally and externally.
The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Service is looking to recruit a Band 6 Occupational Therapist who has experience working with people with complex severe and enduring mental illnesses (i.e. complex psychosis). The ideal candidate will have experience of person-centred care planning, involving service users and carers, and experience in assessing and managing complex and dynamic risk.
MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary - at 50% on commencement of employment and 50% following 12 months employment.
Main duties of the job
* Undertake clinical assessments to establish the person's needs, goals, and risks and generate a formulation-based care plan with all involved.
* Balance generic and profession-specific work.
* Complete specialist OT-specific assessments to guide and support the multi-disciplinary and person-centred care and treatment plans.
* Deliver recovery-focused and evidence-based interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people.
* Manage a caseload of individuals with complex severe and enduring mental illness.
* Complete and contribute to robust risk assessments and risk management plans - deliver and promote positive risk-taking.
* Participate in the development of the service - assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the service are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
* Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and have an ability to build positive multidisciplinary team relationships, and work collaboratively with external agencies, patients, and their families/carers.
* Demonstrate good leadership skills.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression.
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
* Options for flexible working.
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
* Free car parking at all trust sites.
* Free flu vaccinations every year.
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification attached to this advert for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Dip COT or degree in Occupational Therapy plus post-qualification knowledge and experience to post-graduate diploma level as outlined below.
* RCOT Registered.
* Health And Care Professions Council Registered Occupational Therapist.
* Practice Placement Educator.
Desirable
* Leadership qualification/course.
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of post-registration experience working with adults with complex severe and enduring mental health needs.
* Experience of working in community settings and making decisions autonomously.
* Experience of providing assessment and intervention that is recovery-focused.
* Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs.
* Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams.
* Experience of leading/contributing to Care Review Process.
* Experience and ability to carry out clinical audit.
Skills, Knowledge & Attributes
Essential
* Knowledge of the RCOT Mental Health Strategy.
* Knowledge of the Mental Health Rehabilitation NICE Guidelines and Long Term Plan.
* Understanding of the principles of the Care Review Process and Community Care Act.
* Demonstrate understanding of Equality and Anti-discriminatory practice.
* Knowledge of other relevant local and national documents/drivers that affect practice.
* Knowledge and experience of occupational therapy models, interventions, specialist assessments, and outcome measures.
* Ability to integrate the assessment, care planning, and the review process for service users/carers in a sensitive manner.
* Range of interpersonal skills (communication, listening, working collaboratively) maintaining good working relationships with service users/carers, other service providers, and agencies.
* Ability to demonstrate resilience and confidence in managing complex risk.
* Ability to manage staff/support workers and to incorporate management/leadership skills into practice.
* Supervisory skills and knowledge to be able to provide clinical supervision.
* Ability to manage conflict and complexity.
* Ability to work flexibly and away from the main base of other staff/colleagues.
Attributes
Essential
* Leadership skills, ability to motivate and influence others.
* Team player, Integrity, Negotiation skills, good time management/organisation skills.
* Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
* Possesses values and beliefs that enable others to deliver services effectively.
* A flexible attitude.
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Employer details
Employer name
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Fuller House, Hall Court
Telford
TF3 4NF
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