Occupational Therapist - Band 6 or 5/6 Development

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 10 April 2025

Job summary

Please note if you are based at the Hemel Hempstead site your salary will include HCAs

We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for either Band 6 or an experienced Band 5 professional to consider this role as a development position, progressing from Band 5 to Band 6.

Occupational Therapy goals are central to each service user's care plan within EROS, offering a unique opportunity to enhance leadership and care planning skills. The role allows for autonomy in practice and encourages creative, forward-thinking approaches to recovery.

In EROS, we support flexible working patterns. The successful candidate will be mentored by experienced Band 7 OTs, along with a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team.

EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community.

We are proud to be one of the top five recommended NHS Trusts to work for, and hold a CQC rating of Outstanding, making us one of the highest-rated Mental Health Trusts in the country. What's more, you will also be able to enjoy an extensive range of trust-wide staff benefits including:

• 27 days annual leave on entry to NHS


• One of the best pension schemes in the UK


• Flexible working options


• Car leasing scheme


• Childcare discounts


• Wellbeing events and activities


• A 24-hour staff support helpline

Main duties of the job

As a new Occupational Therapist in the team, you will be welcomed into a safe and supportive staff team, who empower and encourage one another in being the best version of ourselves for the benefit of those we care for. One of our current Occupational Therapists says ''I have been working in the Trust for 10 years and I can say that EROS is definitely the most occupational focused job I have ever had. It gives opportunity for us to be our own profession and focus on our own specialism'.

Working to and developing professional strengths is a key part of the EROS culture. Staff have access to professional networks and there is Senior Leadership across all key disciplines to provide guidance, support and innovation across the pathways. This includes the only Consultant Occupational Therapist within the trust who works across our Rehabilitation services.

The service has been successful in both improving outcomes and the experience of care for individuals. It has supported people to return to the community, avoid admissions and has reduced the reliance on inpatient services and overall length of stay. It has been praised by professional bodies including the Royal College of Psychiatrists for its innovative approach and has been shortlisted for a number of national awards.

The service is now in a position to offer these pathways across the rest of the County.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

• Welcoming


• Kind


• Positive


• Respectful


• Professional

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Date posted

27 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £44,962 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

367-LD&F-9142-B

Job locations

St Pauls, Slippers Hill, Hemel Hempstead HP2 5XY/ Saffron Ground

Slippers Hill / Ditchmore Lane

Hemel Hempstead / Stevenage

HP2 5XY

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Pauls, Slippers Hill, Hemel Hempstead HP2 5XY/ Saffron Ground

Slippers Hill / Ditchmore Lane

Hemel Hempstead / Stevenage

HP2 5XY

For questions about the job, contact:

Head OT EROS

Chloe Garrod

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As a new Occupational Therapist in the team, you will be welcomed into a safe and supportive staff team, who empower and encourage one another in being the best version of ourselves for the benefit of those we care for. One of our current Occupational Therapists says ''I have been working in the Trust for 10 years and I can say that EROS is definitely the most occupational focused job I have ever had. It give opportunity for us to be our own profession and focus on our own specialism'.

You can find out more about what our staff say about working for the EROS service by watching this short video here.

Working to and developing professional strengths is a key part of the EROS culture. Staff have access to professional networks and there is Senior Leadership across all key disciplines to provide guidance, support and innovation across the pathways. This includes the only Consultant Occupational Therapist within the trust who works across our Rehabilitation services.

The service has been successful in both improving outcomes and the experience of care for individuals. It has supported people to return to the community, avoid admissions and has reduced the reliance on inpatient services and overall length of stay. It has been praised by professional bodies including the Royal College of Psychiatrists for its innovative approach and has been shortlisted for a number of national awards.

The service is now in a position to offer these pathways across the rest of the County., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for either Band 6 or an experienced Band 5 professional to consider this role as a development position, progressing from Band 5 to Band 6.

Occupational Therapy goals are central to each service user's care plan within EROS, offering a unique opportunity to enhance leadership and care planning skills. The role allows for autonomy in practice and encourages creative, forward-thinking approaches to recovery.

In EROS, we support flexible working patterns. The successful candidate will be mentored by experienced Band 7 OTs, along with a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team.

EROS provides rehabilitation interventions and support to individuals with complex and enduring long term severe mental illness in the community.

We are proud to be one of the top five recommended NHS Trusts to work for, and hold a CQC rating of Outstanding, making us one of the highest-rated Mental Health Trusts in the country. What's more, you will also be able to enjoy an extensive range of trust-wide staff benefits including:

- 27 days annual leave on entry to NHS

- One of the best pension schemes in the UK

- Flexible working options

- Car leasing scheme

- Childcare discounts

- Wellbeing events and activities

- A 24-hour staff support helpline