Senior Occupational Therapist in Complex Psychosis - CMH Rehab

Job overview

The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Service is a new and developing service that works with people with complex severe and ensuring mental illness (psychotic illnesses) and their families within their local communities. The service will provide specialist assessment, treatment and support to stabilise people’s symptoms and help them gain/regain their skills and confidence to live successfully in the community – adopting a team approach to care delivery.

The service has strong working relationships with other services both internally and externally, and is co-located with other mental health teams. We promote regular CPD opportunities both internally and externally.

The Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Service is looking to recruit a Band 6 Occupational Therapist who has experience working with people with complex severe and enduring mental illnesses (i.e. complex psychosis).  Who has experience of person-centred care planning, involving service users and carers, and has experience in assessing and managing complex and dynamic risk

Main duties of the job

• Undertake clinical assessments to establish the person’s needs, goals and risks and generate a formulation based care plan with all involved.
• There will be a balance between generic and profession specific work
• You will complete specialist OT-specific assessments to guide and support the multi-disciplinary and person centred care and treatment plans
• Deliver recovery focussed and evidence based interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people
• Manage a caseload of individuals with complex severe and enduring mental illness
• Complete and contribute to robust risk assessments and risk management plans - deliver and promote positive risk taking
• Participate in the development of the service - assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the service are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and have an ability to build positive multidisciplinary team relationships, and work collaboratively with external agencies, patients and their families/carers.
• Demonstrate good leadership skills

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification attached to this advert for further details.