Occupational Therapist - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment

Oxford Health NHS Trust; Aylesbury, High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. In this role, you will provide intensive care and support to patients at home, ensuring high-quality interventions. You will manage a varied caseload and work closely with inpatient teams to facilitate seamless care transitions. This position is vital for supporting individuals in their return to independence and requires a registered Occupational Therapist with relevant experience.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

Access to tailored learning and development

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discounts

Competitive pension scheme

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Qualifications

• Experience with a range of standardised and non-standardised OT assessments.
• Demonstration of using evidence-based practice.
• Personal qualities include flexibility and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Provide intensive care and treatment to patients at home.
• Manage a varied caseload including complex cases.
• Collaborate with inpatient and CMHT Occupational Therapists.

Skills

Post registration experience with OT assessments

Flexibility

Team player

Education

Registered Occupational Therapist

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Occupational Therapist - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment

Are you looking for a change in your Occupational Therapy work? Or wanting to step up into an experienced Occupational Therapy role?

The Crisis Resolution and home Treatment Team are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join them in the Buckinghamshire's Mental Health Urgent Care pathway. As a senior Occupational Therapist at one of our partner crisis teams you will focus on inpatient liaison, we have one position in each of the teams, in either Aylesbury or High Wycombe.

In 2020, Buckinghamshire's Mental Health Urgent Care pathway developed to include a Crisis Resolution and home Treatment Team. The aim of CRHTT's is to provide patient-centred intensive care and treatment to patients and their families at home as an alternative to hospital admission. Crisis care is a highly specialist intervention and involves supporting our most vulnerable patients and their families in the least restrictive setting possible, by providing a variety of recovery focused psycho-social interventions that enable the person to regain or maintain independence.

Main duties of the job

• In this role you will evolve to meet the requirements of the NHS Long Term Plan with your full involvement. As the service will be growing and developing over a number of years, you will be expected to actively contribute to the development of interventions.
• You will hold a varied caseload, including complex and at times highly complex cases, offering time limited, evidence based, focussed Occupational Therapy interventions. These interventions may be stand alone interventions or offered as part of an occupational therapy process that spans CRHTT and inpatient care.
• You will work in conjunction with inpatient and CMHT Occupational Therapists to deliver seamless transition of interventions between teams where residual/continued assessment or intervention is required.
• Crisis clinicians work with CMHT Social Workers and the County Council's Older Adult Mental Health Social Work team in delivering responsibilities under the Care Act 2014 with regards the assessment and care planning of Social Care needs.

Please note, the team operates 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"

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 apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

As well as working in the fast paced crisis team, either in Aylesbury (Whiteleaf centre) or High Wycombe (Saffron House), this role is intended to work alongside our partners in the inpatient unit at the Whiteleaf Centre to support patient flow through the wards by identifying those who, at the earliest opportunity, can be supported at home.

Buckinghamshire CRHTTs are working towards a CRHTT model that has full fidelity to the nationally recognised model. Buckinghamshire CRHTTs have recently completed a transformation project towards fidelity with the nationally recognised Crisis and Home Treatment model. They are also working toward accreditation with HTAS (Royal College of Psychiatry). The Home Treatment Team has close links with the inpatient wards, including inpatient Occupational Therapists, social workers and CMHT.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person Specification

registration and training

• registered Occupational therapist
• teaching and assessing qualification

Experience

• Post registration experience range of standardised and non-standardised OT assessments
• evidence of using experience

Personal Qualities

• description of personal qualities - flexible, team player, etc

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.