Occupational Therapist- Band 6

Job overview

Are you interested in working in an inpatient rehabilitation setting, using your Occupational Therapy skills and expertise to help people with Complex Psychosis?

Suffolk rehabilitation and Recovery Service are committed to implementation of the VdT Model of Creative Ability and training is available if you are not familiar with model.

Suffolk Rehabilitation and Recovery service (SRRS) are looking to recruit a full time band 6 Occupational Therapist.

Working with the band 5 Occupational Therapist, you will provide assessment and interventions either 1-1 or  group based and also help to link service users into local community resources.

The wider team is made up of a Clinical Psychologist, Consultant Psychiatrist, Doctors, Nurses and Rehabilitation workers. SRRS is a 10 bedded, mixed gender ward in Ipswich.

This is an exciting time for the recovery pathway, as it is expanded to include a new community rehab team that will work in collaboration with the inpatient team.  Occupational therapy is central in the rehabilitation approach so you will benefit from having links with the OTs within the community team.

Main duties of the job

As Occupational Therapist you will be responsible for:

Assessment of Activities of Daily Living

Leading implementation of  VdT Model Of Creative Ability (training is available)

Report writing

Occupational Formulation

Planning and carrying out interventions

Contributing to care planning and risk assessment

Oversee the process and implementation of service user meal preparation

Group facilitation

Promoting recovery approach within the wider MDT

Support discharge planning, working with community teams

Provide outreach visits where indicated as part of the discharge process

Helping to oversee the ward timetable and also taking a lead in creating individual weekly planners based on level of functioning and goals.

Attending reviews and professionals meetings

Establishing and maintaining links with community services

Supervision of band 5 OT

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the generic job description attached. This is an inpatient rehabilitation role, and will require supervision and development of a band 5 OT.