Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Longbridge Community Centre

A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

We can offer you;

A commitment to supporting staff in all aspects of their professional and personal development. This includes an offer of good quality wellbeing support, job planning and supervision essential for OT staff of all grades. We also offer support for flexible working, part time working, job share and those returning from career breaks.

We have an active welcome and induction programme to your Team, ICCR and BSMHFT with a variety of health & wellbeing opportunities to maintain a healthy work life balance to allow you to deliver the care and treatment you aspire to and have a positive work experience.

We offer our OT's an OT business meeting and journal group meeting for support, an opportunity to share good practice and to work on community service developments.

We actively encourage an open culture where all staff are supported and encouraged to speak up about issues that are important to them.

Career development, progression and opportunities through training and supervision. We support a learning culture where staff have the opportunity to gain wide and varied experience, we encourage innovation, quality improvement projects and continuing professional development.

Support for flexible working, part time working, job and those returning from. We have an active welcome and induction programme to your Team, ICCR and BSMHFT.

An open culture where all staff are supported and encouraged to speak up about issues that are important to them.

As a team member you will be delivering strategies to support and enable individuals to participate in recovery-based activities, engage in treatments, and develop skills to support returning successfully to their own homes or support with sourcing appropriate accommodations to meet their needs in the community. You will be allocated a clinical caseload and will participate in case discussion within the wider OT and MDT teams.

OT staff, work with partner organisations to develop more community-based resources and will do 1:1 work to enable service users to engage and participate in activities as part of their engagement plan. Trust OT staff have access to a variety of outcome measures and assessment tools including MOHO and the Trust is now in the process of rolling out sensory work, MDT assessment and Dialog + as an assessment and care planning tool. Staff are welcomed to attend OT meetings. meetings with the Wider AHP professions and training events within the wider Integrated Community Care and Recovery Services (ICCR).

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.