Occupational Therapist

We are recruiting a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join a newly established Community Rehabilitation Team (CRT) within the Mid and North Hampshire Division. This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver a new, community-based rehabilitation model, supporting adults with complex mental health needs to develop independence, improve daily living skills and sustain recovery in the least restrictive environment. You will play a central role in delivering functional, recovery-focused interventions, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to support individuals to live safely and meaningfully in the community. You will work closely with the CMHT providing assessment and intervention., The post holder will:

• Deliver specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions for individuals with complex mental health needs
• Develop and implement goal-based rehabilitation plans, focusing on daily living skills, routines and independence
• Provide practical, skills-based interventions (e.g. self-care, meal preparation, budgeting, use of community resources)
• Contribute to risk assessment and therapeutic risk-taking within MDT decision-making, supporting the CMHT
• Develop and facilitate group programmes to support recovery and social inclusion
• Support service users to access education, employment and meaningful activity
• Work collaboratively with health, social care, housing and voluntary sector partners
• Supervise Occupational Therapy assistant and other Occupational therapists
  
  Strong clinical reasoning and assessment skills
• Ability to deliver functional rehabilitation interventions in the community
• Skills in engagement, motivation and therapeutic communication
• Ability to work autonomously and within an MDT
• Knowledge of risk assessment and recovery-based practice
  
  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence