Community Occupational Therapist

Job Location	Cheddleton
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	£24,907 - £30,615 per annum
Industry	Not Mentioned
Functional Area	Not Mentioned
Job Type	Permanent, full-time

Job Description

An exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist has arisen to join our innovative Community Mental Health Team based in the Staffordshire Moorlands. You will be based at the Ashcombe Centre in Cheddleton and the working hours are Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. However we are open to flexible working hours if desired which will be open to negotiation.You will be expected to be highly motivated, enthusiastic with excellent communication skills and capable of working in an independent manner within a small team. If successful, you will be working to a community locality working model with GP’s, other mental health services and the wider primary care teams across the area.You will need to have a degree in Occupational Therapy and to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council.Our community mental health team is made up of a vibrant and supportive multi-disciplinary team. We aim to support our staff development with lots of opportunities to develop your skills and learning. There will be opportunities to lead on projects, support research and quality improvements. This is an exciting time for our team as we continuously develop more effective therapy based pathways, with a focus on recovery for our service users.You will work alongside our current occupational therapists, mental health nurses and Support Time Recovery Workers to develop these groups and individual recovery focused pathways.Key Duties and Responsibilities will enable you use your specialist knowledge of Occupational Therapy to independently undertake assessments and evaluate interventions with clients with diverse environmental, social, physical and mental health needs; adapting your approach to the varying level of mental health difficulties.You will also be able to plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user and/or carer using meaningful graded activity to achieve occupational goals using occupation focused outcome measures to modify interventions to ensure occupational goals are being achieved.Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel, you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate registered professional who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the CQC that it is the fastest improving mental health trust in the Country.For further details / informal visits contact:Debbie BeardmoreTeam Leaderdeborah.beardmore@combined.nhs.uk

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