An opportunity has arisen for experienced Occupational Therapists within the Adult Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) West of Northamptonshire based at Campbell House, Northampton.
We are looking for registered Occupational Therapists with demonstrable skills, enthusiasm and compassion to work with service users who have a range of complex mental health needs and who is focussed on supporting service user to recover.
You will someone who can make a significant contribution to a service users recovery. You will be able to deliver effective and evidenced based mental health treatment to service users who will have varying levels of complexity. Using your knowledge and skills to reduce mental health symptoms by improving function and participation to help individuals develop and maintain positive mental health in order for them to live full and productive lives.
You will have ability to determine a service users needs through assessment and recovery care planning and be able to formulate risk management plans in conjunction with the service user and their carers. You will deliver interventions individually to a caseload of Service Users and have the opportunity to develop and lead on group interventions. You will be able to manage your time effectively to ensure service users receive a high quality service and have ability to adapt to manage competing demands.
The role will offer the chance for service development opportunities specifically related to Occupational Therapy as well as supervision of junior staff and students.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

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