Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist looking to join a high performing mental health Trust?

We are very excited to be able to offer a suitably qualified Occupational Therapy post within our established multi-disciplinary Recovery Team in the beautiful regency town of Cheltenham.

We welcome applicants who would be able to work 30 hours or more per week.

The successful applicant will gain valuable Mental Health experience within well respected and successful services and work in both urban and rural parts of North Gloucestershire. We are looking for a motivated individual with experience of working in a mental health services.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a caseload of people with complex mental health needs, providing assessment, intervention, review and care planning.
• Complete occupational and functional assessments and provide interventions to promote independence, recovery and meaningful activity.
• Support people with daily living, routines, community participation, vocational and social goals.
• Contribute to risk assessments, safeguarding, care planning and discharge planning.
• Attend and contribute to MDT meetings, clinical reviews and professional discussions.
• Work collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and outcome measures in line with Trust requirements.
• Undertake supervision, CPD and reflective practice and support the supervision and development of OT students.
• Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement within the Recovery Team.

The teams provide a planned needs lead 9am-5pm five days a week service. The hours are 37.5 hours per week.

For further details on this vacancy please don’t hesitate to contact Team Manager Lorraine Morris via 0300 421 2072

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.