Occupational Therapist

Permanent role

Full Time (37.5 hpw).  Brilliant work/life balance

Salary £33,250 to £39,000 per annum

Covering our services across County Durham

Brilliant outcomes through integrated health, housing and care. That’s when it hits home.

This is your chance to be part of something brilliant at Home Group, where clinical interventions work hand in hand with daily support. You’ll be joining us on our exciting journey to become market leaders in New Models of Care by 2021. This means we’re not providing your traditional supported housing services but rather trailblazing the way in delivering brilliant long term outcomes for vulnerable people through integrated health, housing and care.

 
We have two brilliant opportunities for Occupational Therapists to join our services across County Durham, which provides support to young people (aged 16 to 25 years) and adults over 18 years with mental health issues and complex needs.  Our service enables people to move on from 24 hour supported living, to semi-independent shared living, to living independently in the community – how amazing is that!  You’ll be working alongside a Mental Health Nurse and team of Support Workers, ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety, recovery, wellbeing and maximises independence.
 
You’ll be supporting our customers to identify the things they want and aspire to do in their lives.  This will include the assessment and management of a range of complex occupational therapy needs, diverse presentations and a range of mental health conditions, cognitive and/or learning disabilities.  You’ll identify where skills development is required and support customers to achieve their goals through everyday activities.  You’ll work closely with our Support Workers to deliver personalised interventions, develop recovery and wellbeing focused plans, treatment planning as well as regular reviews.

On a day to day basis, you’ll report to Kara our Senior Client Services Manager with your clinical supervision provided by our Clinical Practice team.  The team love to catch up each week to discuss new interventions that have really helped our customers.  They also make sure there’s plenty of cake on the go and time in the agenda to discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. So how’s it going to end?

What’s even more brilliant, you’ll be able to really make your mark (there’s no red tape or mounds of paperwork here!).  You’ll be shaping our services, clinical design and delivering specialist training which unleashes the potential of our colleagues.
 
Want to know more?
 
If you’re not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the apply now button to access lots of useful stuff! You’ll be able to download the job description and find out more about us.  We’ve also got this brilliant candidate pack that shows you what it’s like to work here, and we’ll know you want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package.
 
We’ll also support you with your own continual professional development as well maintaining your professional registration through regular clinical supervision and reflective practice.
 
You can also speak to our brilliant colleague Fiona Ramsay, Clinical Lead – Mental Health on 07391868708 or drop her an email at Fiona.ramsay@homegroup.org.uk to find out more.
 
A bit about us
 
We’re Home Group one of the UK’s biggest providers of high quality housing and care and support services.  We have a wealth of expertise and deliver a wide range of specialist and support services to people with complex health and social care needs.  We recognise the diverse needs communities have and provide a team of specialists and clinicians within our business, supporting the NHS’s commitment to improving health and wellbeing through innovative new models of care.
 
And also, did we mention that we rank no. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to Work and 17^th in Stonewalls Top 100 employers.
 
A bit about you
 
You’ll have experience of working with adolescent and adult mental health, offering occupational therapy based interventions.  You’ll hold relevant professional qualifications including HCPC Occupational Therapist.   You’ll really impress us with your ability to understand where our customers are in their lives, using evidence based practice, care delivery and current occupational therapy based interventions.

As the roles cover our services across County Durham, you'll need to have a full current driving licence and access to a car for work purposes with business insurance cover.  We'll pay you for your mileage.
 
An Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service is required for this role and will be paid for by us.  
 
Working flexibly
 
It’s our unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your child’s school play, your partner’s graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours!  And we really mean this!
 
The job for you?
 
Great, all you need to do now is upload a covering letter and your CV.  Easy as that!

Interviews are planned for 9th May so keep this date free in your diary.

Make yourself at Home
 
We have a big role to play in tackling prejudice and discrimination.  We want you to be yourself at Home Group and we value everything that makes you unique.  We recognise and celebrate your differences and together we make Home Group a special and great place to live and to work.