Occupational Therapist

Job Location	Handsworth Wood
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	£26,588 - £35,295 per annum
Industry	Not Mentioned
Functional Area	Not Mentioned
Job Type	Permanent, full-time

Job Description

Options for Care are currently looking to recruit an Occupational Therapist to work within our mental health inpatient service, Dartmouth House, in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. We have two existing mental health hospital units, Montague Court and Dartmouth House and a residential step-down service, Orchard House. In addition, we are looking to open a new mental health inpatient hospital unit, Stanford Court, in Highgate, Birmingham. This is due to open in January 2021.

Montague Court is an 18 bed male long term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Edgbaston, Birmingham

Dartmouth House is a 16 bed male long term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham

Orchard House is a 8 bed residential step-down recovery service based in Erdington, Birmingham; this allows extension of the long term complex care pathway.

Stanford Court will be a 20 bed male mental health inpatient unit based in Highgate, Birmingham. The building set-up enable us to offer levels of support dependent on the needs of the individual. Five of these beds form a separate Extra Care Suite and five are self-contained recovery flats.

We have successfully completed a period of transformation and rapid development in service delivery and quality improvement. We offer relationship-centred, best practice interventions, supporting individuals to improve their quality of life whilst working towards their personal goals. This supports our organisational objective of enabling individuals to move towards living in the least restrictive setting possible.MissionRealising PotentialVision“We will offer best practice interventions to enable personal recovery and wellbeing.”Values- “The individual is at the heart of everything we do.”- “We aim to inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.”- “We aim to deliver and continuously evaluate high quality service whilst respecting difference, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.”We are looking for a dynamic Occupational Therapist with a genuine passion, and preferably some previous experience, of working with people who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses and are able to support our mission, vision and values. The MOHOST has been established within the service as the core occupational therapy assessment tool, providing evidence of change and focus on occupation. Additional assessments, such as AMPS, are used as led by service-user need.The successful candidate will be based at Dartmouth House, currently rated by CQC as good, and will be supported by the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist.You will be required to support the MDT to deliver person centered care, supporting individuals towards community integration. We are continually developing and evolving our care pathway and use best practice outcome measures and assessment tools.Staff development, support and supervision is in place alongside staff health benefits making Options for Care a welcoming and positive place to work. We also offer preceptorship to newly qualified staff and our current staff reflected on their experiences of this process within our company in June OT News (2019) ‘The first milestone’.For further information regarding the role or an informal discussion, please contact Esther Mallett, Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist on or Lee Johnson, Operations Director on .Closing date: Monday 19th October 2020

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