Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking for a new challenge or ready to move your career to the Community setting? Are you passionate about providing excellent care to older people? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking Occupational Therapist at Weavers Croft to work with our service users in Later Life. This Community Mental Health Team covers a diverse area of Stroud, Berkeley, and the South Cotswolds; therefore, the ability to travel independently is essential.
We are looking for an enthusiastic team player with good communication skills and the willingness to learn and develop in this exciting field of mental health.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist evidence-based Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to a defined caseload underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation.
Your role will enable you to provide specialist Occupational Therapy to service users with severe and complex mental health needs either on an individual basis or within group work. You will also act as a Care Co-ordinator to a number of service users who have a high level of occupational need and will be supported to develop your clinical skills and knowledge to cover Duty and triage referrals into the Occupational Therapy team.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be provided with a comprehensive induction and supported and supervised by a senior Occupational Therapy colleague within the team as well as a Band 7 clinical specialist Occupational Therapist. You will also have the opportunity to partake in a regular countywide Occupational Therapy Later Life Continuing Professional Development forum.
You may already have the necessary skills and experience to work autonomously in the community, or this may be your first community post.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About Us
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity, and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey, just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
* 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
* 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
* 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisation's priority;
* 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative.
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Job Responsibilities
We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme, we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).
Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE), which is similar to a preceptorship programme.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree / Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Accredited training in Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), Sensory Integration, and other evidenced approaches used relevant to the field
* Full Driving license
Length and/or Nature of Experience
* Minimum on commencing role, undergraduate placement experience working with service users with severe/complex mental health needs
* Knowledge and awareness of the needs of people with Mental Health, and a commitment to client-centred working practices
* Able to work independently
* Experience of working in Multi-Disciplinary teams
* Experience in a range of Mental Health settings
* Experience as a Fieldwork educator
* Knowledge and awareness of the needs of older people with Mental Health and/or physical health conditions
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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Acting Team Manager and Clinical Specialist OT
£29,970 to £36,483 a year (pro rata)
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