Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Grade: Band 6

Job Title: Occupational Therapist

Ward/Dept: Ashurst Ward

Location: Littlemore Hospital, Oxford, OX4 4XN

Trust: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week (part-time and flexible working available)

Shift Pattern: Monday-Friday 9:00-17:00

Pay Rate: £21.80 per hour (agenda for change)

The Role

Thank you for your interest in this exciting role as a Mental Health Occupational Therapist in an Acute Neurosciences. We are seeking a cheerful and calming Occupational Therapist that is passionate about rehabilitating patients experiencing mental health crises to fulfil this exciting role.

The Trust/Ward/Department

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Their services are delivered across the community in hospitals, clinics, community bases and in patients homes, as they focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Ashurst ward is an 11-bed PICU based at Littlemore Hospital with a multi-disciplinary team offering intensive psychiatric care. The ward offer you access to lots of resources to support your work, such a gym, music rooms or garden, as well as many different CPD opportunities the team are able to support you pursuing.

The Responsibilities

If you are successful in your application to this post, you will be expected to manage and deliver on the responsibilities outlined below as well as those not included here, call today to discuss further:

• Manage a varied caseload, progressing to include complex and at times highly complex cases.
• Providing occupational therapy services to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the outcome of intervention and document all stages
• Supervise junior or non-registered members of staff, and participate in the education of occupational therapy students
• Provide supervision of activity workers
• Participate and collaborate as a member within a multi-disciplinary team, including completing PEACE interventions
• You may be required to occasionally commute to different sites within the Trust or perform home visits of patients

To be successful in applying for this role you will need:

• Degree level qualification in Occupational Therapy
• To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• NHS experience
• PEACE or equivalent training PMVA/Control and restraint training.
• Experience or interest in working within acute mental health
• Desire for candidates to community or crisis OT experience

Job description

Job description can be provided upon request.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree or equivalent

HCPC Registered

Essential Criteria

Essential

Enhanced DBS

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of

• Relevant Qualifications
• Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progressionaccess to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balanceflexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Accessover 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Employer's website

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification in Occupational Therapy
• To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• NHS experience
• PEACE or equivalent training PMVA/Control and restraint training.
• Experience or interest in working within acute mental health

Desirable

• Desire for candidates to community or crisis OT experience

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Oxfordshire Health Nhs

Sandford Road

Littlemore

Oxford

OX4 4XN

Employer's website

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