A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your skills as an OT and as a mental health professional? If the answer is “yes” then we would like to welcome you on board.
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Ardenleigh women's blended service team. The successful applicant will join an already established Occupational Therapy Service, which aims to provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation to our service users with complex needs. Birmingham is culturally diverse city; as a team we are looking to provide OT services that are compassionate, inclusive, and committed to our service users and staff to ensure excellent care.
This job offers the opportunity to:
- Enhance skills in various specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions. This will be goal orientated, focussed on developing positive routines, addressing difficulties with motivation, and looking to support individuals in developing self-management skills and strategies to maximise independence.
- Opportunity for part time hours or flexible working.
- Have support for staff wellbeing and to encourage home/work life balance.
- Meet specialist training needs such as becoming a Sensory Integration Practitioner, DBT Specialist, Psychological First Aider and more.
- Develop an ever-evolving service and take part in service development, research and QI projects.
- Working alongside a specialist MDT with unique roles such as Drama therapy, Art therapy, Music Therapy and ANP roles which focus on staff wellbeing.
- Completing specialist assessments in MOHO, MOCA, Sensory to formulate treatment needs.
- Attending weekly reviews – MDT.
- Writing reports and assessments.
- Support in operational management of the delivery of an evidenced based Occupational Therapy treatment service.
- Provide leadership within a recovery focused model of care and trauma informed care model.
- Provide support/coaching to the junior members of the OT team and wider MDT.
- Demonstrating values of compassion, commitment, and inclusivity.
- To empower and enable individuals to access community resources which support their social, employment, educational and recreational needs and goals.
- Being creative in co-producing and facilitating 1:1 and group treatments within the team of OTA’s, technical and physical health staff
- Opportunity to be innovative and supported to develop your professional knowledge and skills and engage within projects focussed on developing services
- Delivering services within a recovery and trauma informed framework
- Delivering services across the acute and rehabilitation pathway from admission to discharge into the community in collaboration with community Occupational Therapists and third sector organisations
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. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
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. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached jobdescription and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2024