Occupational Therapist

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Godalming; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist to deliver high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments, interventions and consultations to enable people who access services to reach their full potential. Location: Berkeley House, 11-13 Ockford Road, Godalming, GU7 1QU.

This role includes a community element and requires a full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings is desirable.
• Ability to deliver evidence-based occupational therapy assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality occupational therapy assessments, interventions and consultations.
• Contribute to care coordination and service user assessment within the team.
• Participate in CPD activities and supervision to maintain best practice.

Skills

Occupational Therapy

Job description

Surrey and Borders is looking for an Occupational Therapist who delivers high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessments, interventions and consultations to enable people who access services to reach their full potential.

Location: Berkeley House, 11-13 Ockford Road, Godalming, GU7 1QU

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9am to 17pm

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, co-ordinated CPD programme including a robust supervision structure, care group meetings, Trust wide and core competence training and an annual conference. Staff is valued for their expertise in occupationally focussed interventions and specialist group therapy.

This post is suitable if you have had previous experience of working in mental health, you want to consolidate your knowledge of occupational therapy and be involved in delivering high quality, evidence based, outcome measured occupational therapy interventions. This post also gives you an opportunity to develop skills in care coordinating service users with an occupational therapy focus and being part of the assessment team.

The candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

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.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Christina Long Job title: Manager Email address: [e-mail]