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Job summary

Main area
Occupational therapy
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
267-OA7180906
Employer
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Neill Unit, Warneford Hospital
Town
Oxford
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 Per annum/Pro Rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/05/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Occupational Therapist - Mental Health Reablement Team

Band 5

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.


 

Job overview

Are you an occupational therapist committed to working in mental health and keen to use your professional skills to support individuals’ recovery?

Are you interested in being involved in service innovation and part of bringing change to local mental health delivery?

Oxford City + NE Adult mental health team are leading the way locally with a team of occupational therapists and experienced support staff providing mental health reablement. This team provide short, intensive, activation focussed interventions to support service users to increase, reconnect to, or initiate activities of meaning to support recovery from a period of mental health distress.

The team is embedded in the AMHT working alongside the core delivery led key workers, team managers, psychology delivery and the medical team to support service user recovery.

Part of the role is collecting evidence to support the local evaluation of the reablement model using a combination of patient reported outcome measures, wellbeing scales and occupational therapy assessments. You will contribute to collecting the evidence for the value of embedding this model within our local delivery alongside providing wider evidence for the effectiveness of occupational therapists in community mental health.

Main duties of the job

The Band 5 Reablement Occupational Therapist will (with the support and supervision of Band 6 member of the team)

  • provide occupational therapy assessment and treatment interventions
  • to carry a caseload as a member of the MDT
  • develop the occupational therapy service provision within the setting.

Whether you are a newly qualified occupational therapist looking to step in to mental health or an experienced band 5 looking for move in to the community or a role that uses more profession specific skills, this is the role for you! This small team work closely together to support peoples to increase their occupational engagement and mental health recovery. With support and supervision you will be able to develop skills working individually with service uses, leading groups and completing Occupational Therapy assessments.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible 

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

  • Excellent opportunities for career progression
  • Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
  • 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
  • NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Lease car scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
  • Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Bsc or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
  • HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
  • Placement experience in mental health

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in mental health as an Occupational Therapy student or other
  • Documented evidence of continuing professional development
  • Experience of working collaboratively with carers to meet both the needs of the carer and the user
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working with standardised and non-standardised OT assessments (as student acceptable)
  • Groupwork experience (as student acceptable)
  • Experience of working independently (as student acceptable)
  • Experience of working with other disciplines within a multidisciplinary team (as student acceptable)

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of application of the OT process and use of functional assessment and activity analysis
  • Experience of the application of an OT model in practice
  • Working knowledge of Recovery principles and how these relate to OT
Desirable criteria
  • Working knowledge of standardised assessment and outcome measures appropriate to area of practice

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthNHS 75th BirthdayDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lara Freeman
Job title
AHP Lead for Mental Health (OBSW)
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07385 427558
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