Occupational Therapist - Learning Disability & Autism- Hospital @ Home

Would you like to work in an innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service?
Are you interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families, as an alternative to hospital admission?
Are you keen to work with highly motivated and passionate colleagues?
LDA Hospital at Home is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.
In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team, shortening their inpatient admission. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.
By managing the care pathway, we will be able to ensure that children and young people are cared for in an inpatient setting or via an 'out of hospital' service at home/ care environment. This will:
+ Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances
+ Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams
+ Encourage early therapeutic home leave
+ Minimise Length of Stay
+ Avoid admission

Main duties of the job
The post holder will have skills across mental health and learning disability and/or Autism service. You will be committed to providing clinical leadership and educational skills.
You will work closely with the MDT team, link to other OT's in the Thames Valley collaborative to develop your OT skills.
You will be responsible for promoting the role of Occupational Therapy within the multi-disciplinary team.
You would be expected to have experience of using Occupational Therapy evidenced based models of practice and be confident in providing support to staff to use this model to guide their clinical practice.
A passion for research and embedding learning into practice is required to ensure that the service continues to grow and benefit from the investment committed to staff training. The service puts a strong emphasis on having a positive learning culture and encourages staff to develop skills and knowledge to reach their full potential.
You will be responsible for overseeing and the delivery of Occupational Therapy to patients, making sure that resources are used efficiently and effectively to support patients in achieving their goals., As the LDA H@H OT in the team, you will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the specialist health care needs of children and young people who have a learning disability and/ or Autism.
The team will have a phased implementation:
During Phase 1; the senior team will be offering consultations to the network and contributing to individual cases. They will be preparing for the training and preparation for the rest of the team.
During Phase 2; you will be part of discussions for planned implementation of agreed interventions, on a small number of agreed pilot cases. You will be part of the team to put the agreed interventions in place, working collaboratively with the young person, family and other relevant professionals in the network for that individual. You will have an identified supervisor and attend both 1-1 and group supervision/ debriefs for these complex cases.
During Phase 3; You will continue to be part of the MDT as the team expands, continuing to contribute to the team process' and development.
We would love to hear from applicants who are interested in joining our innovative and inclusive team.
For further information about this role please review the job description and person specification attached to this advert.
Feel free to contact us on the details below if you would like to discuss this role further or arrange an informal visit.
+ All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
+ Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

LDA Hospital at Home is part of a CAMHS specialist service and we are currently recruiting to our multi-disciplinary team (MDT). We will work children and young people up to 18 years old, diagnosed with moderate to severe learning disabilities and/or autism, who are at risk of admission due to mental health difficulties.
You will be based in Oxford in our new offices located above the meadow unit on the Warneford site.
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