Occupational Therapist - Band 6 or 5/6 Development
- NHS
- Part Time
- Hemel Hempstead
- 29970.00 - 44962.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Please note if you are based at the Hemel Hempstead site your salary will include HCAs
We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for either Band 6 or an experienced Band 5 professional to consider this role as a development position, progressing from Band 5 to Band 6.
Occupational Therapy goals are central to each service user's care plan within EROS, offering a unique opportunity to enhance leadership and care planning skills. The role allows for autonomy in practice and encourages creative, forward-thinking approaches to recovery.
In EROS, we support flexible working patterns. The successful candidate will be mentored by experienced Band 7 OTs, along with a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team.
EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community.
We are proud to be one of the top five recommended NHS Trusts to work for, and hold a CQC rating of Outstanding, making us one of the highest-rated Mental Health Trusts in the country. What's more, you will also be able to enjoy an extensive range of trust-wide staff benefits including:
- 27 days annual leave on entry to NHS
- One of the best pension schemes in the UK
- Flexible working options
- Car leasing scheme
- Childcare discounts
- Wellbeing events and activities
- A 24-hour staff support helpline
Main duties of the job
As a new Occupational Therapist in the team, you will be welcomed into a safe and supportive staff team, who empower and encourage one another in being the best version of ourselves for the benefit of those we care for. One of our current Occupational Therapists says ''I have been working in the Trust for 10 years and I can say that EROS is definitely the most occupational focused job I have ever had. It give opportunity for us to be our own profession and focus on our own specialism'.
You can find out more about what our staff say about working for the EROS service by watching this short video here.
Working to and developing professional strengths is a key part of the EROS culture. Staff have access to professional networks and there is Senior Leadership across all key disciplines to provide guidance, support and innovation across the pathways. This includes the only Consultant Occupational Therapist within the trust who works across our Rehabilitation services.
The service has been successful in both improving outcomes and the experience of care for individuals. It has supported people to return to the community, avoid admissions and has reduced the reliance on inpatient services and overall length of stay. It has been praised by professional bodies including the Royal College of Psychiatrists for its innovative approach and has been shortlisted for a number of national awards.
The service is now in a position to offer these pathways across the rest of the County.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job responsibilities
In your new role you will:
- Provide Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions for a specified service user group under the EROS team
- Manage a caseload of service users with complex OT needs, using evidence based/client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in community settings, placements and on home visits
- Provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and appraisal
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Services to provide a high-quality service to service users and their carers
For more detailed information on the position, please access the Job Description and Person Specification documents provided.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / degree in OT
- State registration with HCPC
- Completion of Preceptorship at Band 5 level. Evidence of having met the full KSF Full Gateway for Band 5
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- To have an understanding of a range of mental health conditions and their impact on occupational participation and performance
Desirable
- Membership of BAOT and/or specialist section
- First line management training
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy training
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training
- Practice Placement qualification/APPLE accreditation
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems/learning disability
- Experience of working with people living with severe and enduring mental health issues.
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Experience in a range of clinical settings with experience of providing both individual and group work.
- Knowledge and experience of using the Model of Human Occupation and MoHO assessment tools
- Experience of generic and specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.
Desirable
- Experience at having worked at Band 6 level
- Experience in providing advice, support, and clinical supervision to junior staff and/or students
- Experience in research or audit
- Supervision and appraisals
Skills
Essential
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Understanding of team dynamics
- Training and facilitation skills
Desirable
- Supervisory skills
- Experience in delivering presentations and/or active part in learning opportunities, e.g. leading professional development sessions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Pauls, Slippers Hill, Hemel Hempstead HP2 5XY/ Saffron Ground
Slippers Hill / Ditchmore Lane
Hemel Hempstead / Stevenage
HP2 5XY
