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 clinical 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.
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 the 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 individuals 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.
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
- Competitive pension scheme
- 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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lara Freeman Job title: AHP Professional Lead for Mental Health (OSBW) Email address: Lara.Freeman@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07385 427 558
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.