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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Trust are looking for Occupational Therapists to join Mental Health Services for Older People.

Our Community Services working within Specialist Mental Health Team in Hemel Hempstead

All of our OT posts are varied and no two days are the same – home assessments, MDTs, taking service users out, service development, meetings, training sessions. We would be happy to offer this position as a band 6 development opportunity or if you have the right skills and experience evidenced at interview, we would offer you a vacancy as a band 6 OT

See what other OT staff have said at www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ahp/occupationaltherapists/

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

As the Occupational therapist you would be required to:

Build a working relationship with clients to ensure treatment provided for every individual is unique and targeted to their unique needs. To enable you to assist them in being able to improve their function despite their underlying mental health condition. Provide Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions for a specified service user group, carry a caseload as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and to develop the Occupational Therapy service provision within the setting.

What we offer:

Development opportunities - Receive training and support working from a band  6 Be part of MDTs that value and respect OTs. Our OTs are valued – there will be minimal generic work and you will be supervised by experienced Specialist/Head/Lead Occupational Therapists.

Be involved in CPD and reflective practice – these happen on a monthly basis. 

You would receive support and be part of an OT network across all the services. 

Paid opportunities for OTs Returning to Practice 

We welcome flexible and hybrid working - Including additional bank work for qualified and unqualified experienced staff

Our trust is dedicated in creating the best work life balance for our employees and our Mental Health Community team for older people welcome flexible and hybrid working. We have a number of full time and part time positions available and this will not include shift or weekend work.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…