Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £50008 – £56908
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist: Band 7
We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated Specialist Occupational Therapist to join the Intensive Support Service.
The Intensive Support Service is a forward-thinking team, created in response to the Transforming Care agenda. We support people with learning disabilities and complex needs, within the community and inpatient settings.
You will be part of an Occupational Therapy team who are committed to leading and developing innovative ways of ensuring the occupational needs of people who use our services are a key component of high-quality service delivery.
We use the Model of Human Occupation to guide all our Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions. We are committed to an extensive, coordinated CPD programme including supervision, care group and trust wide training, core competence training, and annual conferences.
We will also consider a candidate who is looking at a developmental role from a Band 6 to a Band 7.
For further details please contact Selven Daniel, Senior Clinical Lead for Deacon / Intensive Support Service 01372 216313 Selven.Daniel@sabp.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
To provide compassionate and effective leadership to the occupational therapists and assistants within the ISS and Deacon
To contribute to the overall leadership of the service.
To provide high quality and evidence based occupational therapy assessment and interventions and consultation to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, generic and specialised in line with the occupational therapy and service pathways
To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporter/family members, stakeholders and agencies.
To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.
To ensure the delivery occupational therapy student placements.
To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.
About us
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.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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