Job description

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Job overview

Are you looking for a change in your Occupational Therapy work? Or wanting to step up into an experienced Occupational Therapy role?

 

The Crisis Resolution and home Treatment Team are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join them in the Buckinghamshire’s Mental Health Urgent Care pathway.  As a senior Occupational Therapist at one of our partner crisis teams you will focus on inpatient liaison, we have one position in each of the teams, in either Aylesbury or High Wycombe.

 

In 2020, Buckinghamshire’s Mental Health Urgent Care pathway developed to include a Crisis Resolution and home Treatment Team.  The aim of CRHTT’s is to provide patient-centred intensive care and treatment to patients and their families at home as an alternative to hospital admission.  Crisis care is a highly specialist intervention and involves supporting our most vulnerable patients and their families in the least restrictive setting possible, by providing a variety of recovery focused psycho-social interventions that enable the person to regain or maintain independence. 

Main duties of the job

• In this role you will evolve to meet the requirements of the NHS Long Term Plan with your full involvement.  As the service will be growing and developing over a number of years, you will be expected to actively contribute to the development of interventions.
• You will hold a varied caseload, including complex and at times highly complex cases, offering time limited, evidence based, focussed Occupational Therapy interventions. These interventions may be stand alone interventions or offered as part of an occupational therapy process that spans CRHTT and inpatient care.
• You will work in conjunction with inpatient and CMHT Occupational Therapists to deliver seamless transition of interventions between teams where residual/continued assessment or intervention is required.
• Crisis clinicians work with CMHT Social Workers and the County Council’s Older Adult Mental Health Social Work team in delivering responsibilities under the Care Act 2014 with regards the assessment and care planning of Social Care needs. 

Please note, the team operates 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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”

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 apply)
•    Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As well as working in the fast paced crisis team, either in Aylesbury (Whiteleaf centre) or High Wycombe (Saffron House), this role is intended to work alongside our partners in the inpatient unit at the Whiteleaf Centre to support patient flow through the wards by identifying those who, at the earliest opportunity, can be supported at home.

Buckinghamshire CRHTT’s are working towards a CRHTT model that has full fidelity to the nationally recognised model.  Buckinghamshire CRHTT’s have recently completed a transformation project towards fidelity with the nationally recognised Crisis and Home Treatment model.   They are also working toward accreditation with HTAS (Royal College of Psychiatry). The Home Treatment Team has close links with the inpatient wards, including inpatient Occupational Therapists, social workers and CMHT.

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 registration and training Essential criteria

• registered Occupational therapist

Desirable criteria

• teaching and assessing qualification

experience Essential criteria

• Post registration experience range of standardised and non-standardised OT assessments

Desirable criteria

• evidence of using experience

Personal Qualities Essential criteria

• description of personal qualities - flexible, team player, etc

Documents to Download

Bucks CRHTT JD & PS (PDF, 560.3KB)

Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Recruiter Contact Details

Name: Lisa Schurer

Title: Chiltern Crisis Team Manager

Email: lisa.schurer@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone: 07717 428080