Occupational Therapist - Health & Homelessness Inclusion Team

Job overview

Are you a Registered Occupational Therapist looking for a new challenge?

We have an excellent opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join an award-winning, sector-leading team that is improving the health and housing outcomes of people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness and disadvantages.

The Oxfordshire Health and Homelessness Inclusion Team (OHHIT) is an integrated partnership operating across housing, health, care and third sector systems. Formed in 2021 as part of the Department for Health and Social Care's Shared outcomes initiative, our team was one of 17 sites nationally looking to test innovative ways to work across systems, with the core aims of:

Supporting planned, safe discharges from hospital for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness - avoiding discharges to street. Increase access to mainstream services in the community - avoid unnecessary (re)admissions to hospital and reduce inequalities. Prevent rough sleeping and homelessness.

Main duties of the job

• Carrying out holistic occupational therapy assessments and interventions with individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness across Oxfordshire (predominantly Oxford city). This may include short or long term work, and a range of physical and mental health needs
• Working as part of an MDT to enable people to overcome barriers to accessing mainstream health and social care services, where appropriate.
• As part of the wider clinical team, ensure that the care and support needs of individuals within Step Service accommodation are assessed - in line with principles of Discharge to Assess (D2A)
• Contributing to ongoing development of the occupational therapy service within OHHI, and wider service delivery and process.
• Providing guidance or consultation to staff across health, social care, and third sector services to support understanding of occupational needs and therapeutic approaches.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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.