Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Our Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Team is seeking a values based Occupational Therapist who is passionate about empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals. This role includes care coordination, with a low caseload of around ten, and also time for profession specific tasks.

We are a newly formed multi-agency team based at Hellesdon Hospital, specialising in creative engagement, person-centred working and supporting people who face many different challenges in their daily life. Staff in the team include social workers from Norfolk County Council, Recovery workers and Peer support workers from Together, employment specialists from MIND, Substance Misuse Practitioners from Change Grow Live, as well as Occupational Therapists, Medical staff, Nursing staff, Administrators, Pharmacists and Psychologists employed by NSFT. The team works with around ninety service users based in Norwich, North Norfolk and South Norfolk.

The team is being developed as 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. Next year the team proposes expansion into the east and west of Norfolk via satellite teams.

Main duties of the job

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 of around fifteen per care coordinator, supervision with an AHP lead, development networks, regularly hosting OT students, and support to undertake OT specific assessments and treatments. The team's groupwork programme already features a popular weekly creative drop in at a local community hub, and plans to expand to include further meaningful activities of interest to our service users such as cinema and outdoor pursuits.

Successful candidates can expect to spend the vast majority of their working week in face to face contact with service users, making use of their specialist clinical skills.

Please note the role is advertised with a generic job description but advert text more accurately describes setting and speciality. Further discussions encouraged.

About us

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.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're 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.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

The Conifers, Hellesdon Hospital

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

The Conifers, Hellesdon Hospital

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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