Senior Occupational Therapist

You will have supervision from a Clinical Lead AHP (Occupational Therapist) in a multi disciplinary team including a dedicated Occupational Therapist, Community Mental Health Nurses, Peer Support Workers, Senior Support Workers, CGL and Social Workers.

This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes. We work with people in their own homes, residential care and supported living settings as well as, on occasion, in-reaching to people who are in a mental health hospital bed.

This is a team which strongly values the unique contribution of Occupational Therapy alongside our other disciplines. We see Occupational Therapy as pivotal in helping service users identify and overcome the barriers which prevent them from living the lives they want to live.

This caseload holding role offers many opportunities to maintaining your core skills, such as low caseloads, supervision with an AHP lead, development networks, regularly hosting OT students, and support to undertake OT specific assessments and treatments.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, youll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. Were an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

The team works with around ninety service users based in Norwich, North Norfolk and South Norfolk. The team is part of the local community transformation programme and will have a focus on improving the lives of adults with complex enduring psychosis , as detailed in the NICE guidance for Rehabilitation (NG181) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Standards for Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Services.

We look forward to an Occupational Therapist joining our friendly and creative team, please contact us for more information on the role.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

The team's groupwork programme already features a popular weekly active group. We plan to expand to include further meaningful activities of interest to our service users.

Supervision, professional development and staff welfare are important to the service and time and support will be available to engage in all these important roles. A variety of CPD opportunities can be explored depending on your career pathway. The wider trust has a range of AHP networks which will support you in developing your Occupational Therapy skills, for example training in assessment tools and taking part in workstreams to further enhance AHP services.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Qualifications

Essential: - BSc/MSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy; - Experience of working with groups of people; - Ability to work both independently and under supervision

Desirable: - Relevant post graduate training courses

Experience

Essential: - Post registration experience in mental health; - Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience

Desirable: - Experience working in a range of mental health settings.

Skills

Desirable: - Experience of assessing and prescribing equipment.

Other

Essential: - Ability to travel independently.; - Undertake physical intervention training and remain trained in techniques, as required by role