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Hello, I am Nadean, Occupational Therapy Lead for the Community Forensic Psychiatry Service. We have an exciting opportunity for a Occupational Therapist to join our team, with the scope to develop specialist professional skills with a client group who have diverse and complex needs, under the supervision of an Advanced Practitioner.

If successful, you will be based in Cambridge and Peterborough working with adults diagnosed with a mental health condition and/or learning disability who present with a risk of significant harm to others, to achieve optimal management of risk and maximum recovery.

Working closely with the individual, the MDT produces a client centred care package that is focused around personal needs. The service adopts a compassionate and trauma informed approach to promote relapse prevention and recovery, so enabling individuals to realise their full potential whilst supporting them to continue to build and live meaningful lives in the community. The team delivers this within pathways including Functional assessment, Reablement, Sensory Approaches, Vocation and a group programme.

We are looking for a highly motivated, creative, and innovative Registered Occupational Therapist. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference to the delivery of care within  an experienced multidisciplinary team who share a passion and drive for delivering high quality care and treatment to service users, this is the role for you!

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the Occupational Therapist role in the Forensic Psychiatry Community Service is to collaboratively work with the individuals referred to our service to maintain, restore or create a match between the abilities of the person, the demands of his or her activities and occupations, and the demands of the environment in order to improve function and access to opportunities for meaningful participation in daily life. 

As part of the Occupational Therapy team, the post holder will deliver an Occupational Therapy service following a referral pathway process. This will be providing specialist Occupational Therapy interventions underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) and the principles of recovery, enablement, compassionate care, optimism, hope and unconditional positive regard. 

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk