Assistant Therapy Practitioner (Reablement) - Oxford

Job summary

Do you have experience supporting people with mental health problems?Are you looking to develop a career in mental health?

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and compassionate individual to join our Mental Health Reablement Team as an Assistant Therapy Practitioner. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive, multi-disciplinary team delivering meaningful, recovery-focused interventions to adults experiencing mental health challenges.

The main aim of this 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.

You will work collaboratively with Occupational Therapists to deliver short-term, intensive interventions that enable service users to re-engage with daily activities and rebuild confidence in their own homes and communities. The service provides both individual and group-based occupational therapy, supporting recovery through purposeful activity.

Main duties of the job

As a 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.

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.

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.

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.

About us

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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

Warneford Hospital

Warneford Lane

Oxford

OX3 3JX

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

Warneford Hospital

Warneford Lane

Oxford

OX3 3JX

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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