Senior Occupational Therapist

Are you B6 Occupational Therapist who wants to develop their skills and experience working with people with Complex Psychosis in the Norwich, North and South Norfolk area? Are you passionate about teamwork and making a positive difference in people's lives? We'd love for you to join us working in our Rehabilitation for Complex Psychosis community mental health team based at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich.

Our Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Team is seeking an Occupational Therapist who is passionate about empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals. This role includes care coordination, with a low caseload and also time for profession specific tasks.

We are a multi-agency team based at Hellesdon Hospital, specialising in creative engagement, person-centred working and supporting people who face many different challenges in their daily life work towards recovery.

Staff in the team social workers from Norfolk County Council, Recovery workers and Peer support workers from Together, Substance Misuse Practitioners from Change Grow Live, as well as Occupational Therapists, Medical staff, Nursing staff, Administrators, Physician Associate and Psychologists employed by NSFT.

You will have supervision from a Clinical Lead AHP (Occupational Therapist) in a multi disciplinary team including a dedicated Occupational Therapist, Community Mental Health Nurses, Peer Support Workers, Senior Support Workers, CGL and Social Workers.

This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes. We work with people in their own homes, residential care and supported living settings as well as, on occasion, in-reaching to people who are in a mental health hospital bed.

This is a team which strongly values the unique contribution of Occupational Therapy alongside our other disciplines. We see Occupational Therapy as pivotal in helping service users identify and overcome the barriers which prevent them from living the lives they want to live.

This caseload holding role offers many opportunities to maintaining your core skills, such as low caseloads, supervision with an AHP lead, development networks, regularly hosting OT students, and support to undertake OT specific assessments and treatments.

The team’s groupwork programme already features a popular weekly active group. We plan to expand to include further meaningful activities of interest to our service users.

Supervision, professional development and staff welfare are important to the service and time and support will be available to engage in all these important roles. A variety of CPD opportunities can be explored depending on your career pathway. The wider trust has a range of AHP networks which will support you in developing your Occupational Therapy skills, for example training in assessment tools and taking part in workstreams to further enhance AHP services.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Softley Job title: AHP Clinical Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01603 421610

Melissa Moss

Clinical Lead Nurse / Advanced Nurse Practitioner (mental health)

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01603 421610

Colin Oswald

Community Team Manager

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01603 421610