Assistant Therapy Practitioner (Reablement) - Oxford

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

People with diagnosed with an SMI (serious mental illness) have significantly worse health outcomes and life expectancies.
The main aim of this exciting role is to focus on mental health rehabilitation, engagement, and enablement to optimize service users’ ability to recovery and live meaningfully and enjoy a good quality of life.
Oxford City + NE Adult mental health team have lead the way locally in delivering this evidence base intervention led by a team of occupational therapists and experienced support staff providing mental health reablement. This team will provide short, intensive, activation focussed interventions to support service users to increase, reconnect to, or initiate activities of meaning to support recovery from a period of mental health distress.
As a Band 4 Reablement Assistant Therapy practitioner you will work alongside Occupational Therapy colleagues to deliver groups and work one to one with service users helping them identify and increase their activities of meaning and support their mental health recovery.
Whether you are an experienced mental health support worker, a member of support staff looking to move into community teams or someone who is keen to step into mental health work, this is the role for you!
This small team will work closely together to support peoples to increase their activity levels and support their mental health recovery. With support and supervision you will be able to develop skills working individually with service uses, leading groups and completing patient led outcome measures.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
Excellent opportunities for career progression
Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
Competitive pension scheme
Lease car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Mental Health First Aiders
Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
You will be part of the Mental Health reablement team based in one of Oxfords Adult Mental Health teams. You will have clinical supervision from a qualified Occupational Therapist, join in service training and meet regularly with therapy assistants from a range of mental health services.
Alongside our comprehensive in-house training offer, which includes masters level modules, Oxford Health is proud to be leading the way in developing healthcare apprenticeships to support our staff with their career aspirations.
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