Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (Response Mental Health Housing)
Our next step in transforming the way we deliver mental health care in Oxfordshire, following the publication of the Community Mental Health Framework, is growing our offer for those with complex psychosis and rehabilitation needs. In this post, you will inform this transformation work, sharing your understanding of the needs of the residents at the Recovery Campus to help shape our future rehabilitation service.
Oxford Health are proactively growing our AHP and clinical specialist workforce. This role is part of a larger drive to ensure access to occupational therapy for our service users in the community and ensure we have clinical specialists working with the people with the most complex needs.
This job will see you providing evidenced-based, trauma-informed occupational therapy assessments and interventions to individuals where they live. Working in partnership with Response (a mental health housing provider) to support and develop the quality and consistency of the recovery interventions delivered by the whole team.
Your colleagues and direct network will include Response housing support staff and the clinical MDT based at the Recovery Campus. You will have a peer network of Band 7/clinical lead occupational therapists and be clinically supervised by an Occupational Therapist, as well as having access to the active AHP network across the trust and profession-specific training coordinated by our Practice Development Lead for Occupational Therapy.
Main duties of the job
As the Band 7 OT in this post, you will work in a recovery-focused, trauma-informed way providing 1:1 occupational therapy assessments and interventions with a reablement, recovery, and rehabilitation focus to those housed at the Response Recovery Campus.
This will include providing assessments and interventions that focus on occupational performance and enable and encourage individuals to live as independently as possible.
You will create occupational case formulations to highlight an individual's occupational strengths and limitations and inform the intervention plan moving forward. You will work collaboratively with individuals and their key workers to develop clear and meaningful support plans and SMART goals.
About us
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe, and excellent"
At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job responsibilities
Your assessment and intervention will support the flow of individuals through the pathway, identifying readiness to step down from their housing or need for higher intensity support, and supporting transitions between housing providers. You will also act as intermediaries with health and social care to ensure residents get timely access to any necessary equipment and assistive technology to enable them to lead full and active lives with minimal disruption.
You will be part of growing and sustaining a high-quality rehabilitation environment, through actively promoting and participating in the education and upskilling of staff within the Response Housing network. This will involve providing relevant recovery-focused training to staff within the housing pathway (including, but not limited to, training on Recovery principles, CHIME framework (Connectedness, Hope and Optimism, Identity, meaning, Empowerment), and Co-production principles). As well as providing specialist support and education to service users, carers, key workers, colleagues, housing/care providers and developing new initiatives which seek to improve social inclusion and quality of life.
If this sounds like the job for you, or you just want to know a bit more about it please contact us to discuss this opportunity.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience using standardised Occupational Therapy tools and models Occupational Therapy assessments
* Experience of taking students
* Experience supervising team members
* Evidence of working with service users with a range of backgrounds and health needs
* Experience assessing and providing equipment, including assistive technology
* Experience working in non-traditional settings
* Experience working with people with co-occurring needs (such as ASD, substance use)
Qualification and training
* BSc (or equivalent) in Occupational Therapy
* Placement educator training and experience
* Evidence of relevant post-qualifying training
* Leadership training
* Sensory training
* Masters level training in related field
Knowledge and skills
* Post-qualifying experience in a range of related settings
* Understanding of clinical model of OT and use of related assessments
* Knowledge of outcome measures and experience using these to evaluate practice
* Leadership and influencing skills and experience
* Knowledge of trauma-informed care, recovery principles, and co-production
* Experience of working with supported living placements and/or third sector providers.
* Knowledge of assistive technology and equipment provision.
* Understanding of the Care Act, MHA, and mental capacity acts and their application
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.
AHP Professional Lead for Mental Health (OSBW)
£46,148 to £52,809 a year Per annum | Pro rata
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