- The ability to provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions, both group and individual, to people who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with the occupational therapy pathways.
- To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and outside agencies.
- To contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
- To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, support workers and activities coordinators (as appropriate).
- To provide occupational therapy student placements.
- To contribute to service development and audits.
- To take on the role of lead professional as appropriate.
- Occupational Therapy professional qualification (HCPC)
- Completion of a Fieldwork Educators' course
- Relevant post qualification clinical experience
- Experience of using multiple occupational frames of reference and approaches
- Experience of using relevant occupational therapy assessment and implementing interventions
- Experience in applying knowledge of the impact of health and disability on occupational performance, participation and identity
- Evidence of an interest and skills in specialist area
- Evidence of clinical reasoning skills
- Experience of contributing to service development/project work
- Experience as a supervisor
- Experience of group facilitation
- Experience of supporting students on placement
Community Occupational Therapist - Redhill, United Kingdom - Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Are you an Occupational Therapist looking for an exciting new opportunity?
If so, come and join the East Surrey Community Mental Health Team for Older People
The post will primarily include delivering both individual and group assessment and interventions, using the Model of Human Occupation and you will also support some wider team functions, such as duty.
This post will suit you if you have previous experience of working in older people's mental health, or with people with dementia and would like to further your knowledge and skills in this area.However, we also welcome applications from Occupational Therapists working in other clinical areas, who can bring transferable skills to the post.
The team is based at Gatton Place in Redhill town centre and cover the areas of Tandridge, Reigate, Redhill and Horley.
The Occupational Therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, coordinated CPD programme including supervision, Care Group, trust wide training, core competence training, and annual conferences.
Main duties of the job
Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please see the job description document attached for more information on the requirements for this job.
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