Occupational Therapist - Mental Health Reablement - Oxford

Job summary

Are you an occupational therapist committed to working in mental health and keen to use your professional skills to support individuals' recovery?

Are you interested in being involved in service innovation and part of bringing change to local mental health delivery?

Then this is the role for you.

Oxford City + NE Adult mental health team are leading the way locally having created a team of occupational therapists and experienced support staff to provide mental health reablement interventions. This team provides short, intensive, activation focussed interventions to support service users to increase, reconnect to, or initiate activities of meaning to support recovery from a period of mental health distress.

The team is embedded in the AMHT working alongside the core delivery provided by MDT key workers, team managers and the medical team to support service user recovery.

Part of the role is collecting evidence to support the local evaluation of the reablement model using a combination of patient reported outcome measures, wellbeing scales and occupational therapy assessments. You will contribute to collecting the evidence for the impact of the intervention for service user recovery alongside providing wider evidence for the effectiveness of occupational therapists in community mental health.

Main duties of the job

The Band 6 Reablement Occupational Therapist will:

• provide specialist occupational therapy assessment and treatment interventions.
• lead the 'recovery through activity' group program
• carry a complex caseload as a member of the MDT
• supervise members of the team
• support the development of the occupational therapy service provision within the setting.

We know that many roles for occupational therapists working community mental health do not provide the ability to draw on these core occupational therapy skills. We are keen to support occupational therapists who want to step into roles that use their profession specific skills, alongside their mental health practitioner skills. If you are interested but unconfident about this step or want to know more to know if this is the role for you, than please get in touch.

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
• 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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

Warneford Hospital

Warneford Lane

Oxford

OX3 7JX

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

Warneford Hospital

Warneford Lane

Oxford

OX3 7JX

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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