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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
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. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Community Learning Disability Senior Occupational Therapist - Oxford
Closed for applications on: 2-May-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 2-May-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Oxford Clinic
- Address
- Sandford road
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX4 4XN
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 21 hours per week (Week days)
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Additional RSU Lead of £1,446 Per annum | Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Forensic Mental Health Services
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.
Job overview
Are you an autonomous practitioner and creative thinker with experience of working with patients who have a learning disability and forensic history? If so don't miss this opportunity to join our newly established team working across the Thames Valley in Oxfordshire.
This new post will sit under the management of the SCFT providing community-based support to people with a learning disability and autism who display behaviour that can lead to contact with the criminal justice system (such as fire-setting, physically aggressive/violent or sexually inappropriate behaviour).
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To be a Senior Occupational Therapist working autonomously, as a member of the Forensic Community Learning Disability multidisciplinary team, working across Thames Valley and offering in-reach to the secure services inpatient setting.
To provide preventative, reactive, and evidence-based interventions through a combination of specialist risk assessment and management, face to face therapeutic interventions and support.
To support, training, and consultancy to other services to meet the needs of this group.
To provide specialist Occupational Therapy interventions using evidence-based client cantered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapy with those service user's within the FCLD team.
To actively contribute to the development of the Occupational Therapy role and Occupational Therapy service provision according to identified needs of the multi-disciplinary team and service users needs.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the provision of care, therapeutic interventions and treatment to Thames Valley Forensic Services learning disabled patients, ensuring the highest standards of care are provided. To ensure that services to patients and carers are delivered and developed according to Trust and Social and Healthcare departmental policies.
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
You will be working in a team who is passionate about the care they provide. We strive to meet our Trust Values of Safe, Caring and Excellent.
For more information regarding the role please see Job description and person specification.
Alternatively, please contact:
Heather Reed (Lead Occupational Therapist)
[email protected]
07552 860560
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
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.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Qualified Occupational Therapist
- Professional Registration with HCPC and Membership of RCOT professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate education specifically relating to client group
- Qualified to supervise students
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have substantial post-qualification experience. include working with adults with learning disabilities.
- To have experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- To have experience of supervising students
- To have experience of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults processes
- To have experience of risk and needs assessments, and discharge planning
- To have awareness of local and national policy frameworks relating to mental health and Occupational Therapy
Desirable criteria
- To have experience of clinical work within a Forensic secure environment
- To have experience of working within the Criminal Justice framework
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of therapy outcome measures.
- Comprehensive knowledge and excellent skills in the application of therapy assessments
- Excellent skills in Occupational assessment and formulation.
- Must demonstrate sound problem-solving skills and manage competing demands
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to carry out duties outside of ordinary office hours when required
- Must be IT-literate, and able to manage own administration tasks
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heather Reed
- Job title
- Professional Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07552 860560
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application
No longer accepting applications
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