B5 / 6 Community Occupational Therapist (developmental)

As a service we have developed innovative ways of delivering occupational therapy in the Runnymede and Spelthorne Community Mental Health Recovery Service to support people in their individual recovery journey including a variety of occupationally focused programmes. The post constitutes a 50% delivery of Occupational Therapy interventions and a 50% of care coordination/lead professional for people with occupational needs.
The post will include delivering both individual and group occupational therapy interventions within a clear care pathway, these interventions include:
+ Occupation Matters Programme - a 20 weeks group which utilises Lifestyle Redesign© principles.
+ Recovery through Occupation - 6 weeks group which uses the Re-Motivation process to improve an individual's motivation and social skills
+ New Horizons - our occupational therapy led discharge group.
+ Individual occupational therapy
+ Comprehensive occupational therapy assessments
The candidate must have a full and valid driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role., 1. 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.
2. To communicate effectively with people who access services, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and when appropriate outside agencies.
3. To contribute to the generic functioning of the team.
4. To provide supervision and mentoring to more junior occupational therapists, occupational therapy apprenticeships, support workers and activities coordinators (as appropriate)
5. To provide occupational therapy student placements.
6. To contribute to service development and audits.
7. To take on the role of lead professional as appropriate.
In addition to your Occupational Therapy role, you will also be expected to:
+ To contribute to the rapid response function within the service, with support and supervision from another clinician.
+ To complete New Patient Assessments for people referred to the service with supervision support from another clinician.
+ To practice within the Positive Risk-Taking Framework.
+ To be the lead professional when delivering generic work, such as risk management, referring to specialist services, stabilisation, low intensity interventions, to people who access services.

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.