Occupational Therapist, Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service

Would you like to join an innovative, dynamic and ambitious team committed to delivering the best possible care for our service-users? The Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS) is looking for compassionate and enthusiastic Occupational Therapists to welcome into our team.

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

The service provides a dedicated, integrated multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who aim to improve quality of life, promote hope, recovery, and individual resilience, and reduce reliance on crisis and inpatient services.

At HPFT we provide an exciting and forward-thinking work environment, where staff feel valued and supported to reach their full potential. 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

As our new Occupational Therapist, 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 focussed 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 theCare 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?