Qualified / Newly Qualified Occupational Therapist

Qualified / Newly Qualified Occupational Therapist - Specialist Recovery Division

Career Level B

Location: Northampton: Northamptonshire

Salary:  From £30,381 – 36,480 per annum, depending on experience 

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

You can achieve more at St Andrew’s Healthcare

We are St Andrew's. We are a mental health Charity and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.

We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come and join us, and support us to help people transform their lives. 

The Specialist Recovery Division

The Specialist Recovery Division comprises of 6 inpatient units, 3 rehabilitation houses and a small community service spanning across low security, specialist rehabilitation, acute services and community facing services. This role will be focused on supporting our low secure service on Spencer House. We have 2 wards within this building, both wards are 14 bedded wards for males aged 18-65. Patients admitted to the ward experience a range of mental health issues.

You will be working across both wards with the current Occupational Therapy and will have direct support and mentorship from the Specialist OT’s within in the team and you will support the Technical Instructors currently working on the wards.  Within the Occupational Therapy team we offer comprehensive treatment through the medium of meaningful occupation.  Our aim is to equip patients with the life skills required to live a life worth living through improved health and wellbeing, independence, purpose and balance within their daily living.

The Person and Role

As a registered Occupational Therapist, you would be joining a highly motivated, knowledgeable and innovative OT team.  You will have the opportunity to be innovative and create new therapy ideas. Experience will be gained as part of a multi-disciplinary team, taking responsibility for a clinical caseload, and offering OT specific assessment and treatment to groups and individuals within your care.  As an employee of St Andrews you will adopt an inclusive and ‘can do’ attitude in approaching your work. 

You will demonstrate good understanding of OT within secure services, including an application of risk assessment skills.  In sharing your experience of applying the OT process, you should also emphasise how you promote our specialism as a profession.

Continued professional development is supported, with access to a range of in-house CPD events, as well as an expectation to be involved in the development and training of OT students.  Further opportunities include networking opportunities with colleagues of the same and different grades within the service and The Charity. 

You should have:

• Experience and knowledge of working within a secure setting.
•  Knowledge and experience of working within mental health services.
• An interest, knowledge and understanding of a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches which guide practice and clinical reasoning. For example Model of Human Occupation, occupational science, occupational diagnosis and sensory approaches.
• Knowledge and experience in using occupational assessment tools to support clinical reasoning, treatment planning and evaluation of interventions.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to develop good professional relationships with members of the MDT and patient group, and the ability to liaise with a variety of outside agencies (within and outside of the hospital). 

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 day after 10 years' service; Life cover; Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.