Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Redhill; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Home Treatment Teams, delivering occupational therapy within community-based crisis care for adults experiencing mental health crises.

You will provide expert assessment, formulation and interventions to support recovery, independence and safe discharge, while offering leadership in a multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes and help people stay well at home.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality occupational therapy assessments, interventions, formulation and consultation.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and guidance to the team.
• Work within an accessible, non-stigmatising service contributing to the specialist needs of individuals in crisis and admission avoidance.

Job description

We are delighted to introduce occupational therapy across our all age Home Treatment Teams as part of the service delivery model designed to enhance comunity based crisis care and improve outcomes for people over 18 years who are experiencing an mental health crisis.

This is a unique opportunity to shape and develop occupational therapy provision within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, bringing an occupational perspective to crisis intervention, recovery-focused care, and admission avoidance pathways. As a newly established role, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence service development, strengthen occupational therapy leadership within the team, and contribute to the future direction of home treatment services.

As the Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist within the team you will be providing expert occupational therapy assessment, formulation and interventions for people who are experiencing acute mental health crisis and their families. Your occupationally focused interventions will support recovery, independence and participation in meaningful occupations. You will work collaborative within a multi-disciplinary team to support people to remain at home during a crisis and support timely discharges from hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Promoting health and independence for people who use our services and their families/carers/support staff by delivering high quality occupational therapy assessments, interventions, formulation, and consultation.
• Provision of clinical leadership, supervision, and guidance to the team and others as required.
• These will be undertaken within an accessible, non-stigmatising, service that contributes to the specialist needs of the individuals referred.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

• offers a wide range of staff networks
• flexible working
• free parking
• excellent health and wellbeing support
• offers a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.