Older Adult Services
Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist (Hospital at Home)
3 posts available, mixture of full time and part time - these are all cross county posts covering Coventry and North and South Warwickshire
Working pattern: Long days, shift patten over 7 days 08.00-20.00
The Older Adults Service work with Older Adults who have mental health needs in the community. The Team is multi-disciplinary consisting of OT, Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Worker, Voluntary sector, support workers and peer workers. The service works closely with health, social care, statutory and voluntary sector partners.
The focus of the position is to maintain patient at home whilst supporting a strengths-based approach to recovery. The role will be based in the community teams, working within people's homes to support admission prevention, quicker discharges and to support carers. We are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic and experienced individuals who can work confidently on their own as well as being a team player. Good communication and problem-solving skills are essential, as well as knowledge of the needs of older adults. We also are looking for people who can demonstrate the Trust's vision and values in practice, and are motivated to be involved in innovation and service development.
The Older Adults Hospital at Home service will provide care, support and treatment by a professional multi-disciplinary team. We will promote a shared approach to Older Adults, with an emphasis on individual choices and recovery.
The main functions of the service will be to provide care, support and treatment to Older Adults with mental health needs in their own homes and will aim to:
Increase stability and quality in the lives of patients and their carers/families through the provision of timely and clinically effective health and social care interventions that meet the needs of individuals in their own environment.
Promote individuals' participation in their own recovery and enable them to develop coping strategies. Gender, cultural issues and personal preferences will be considered within the referral and assessment process.
Promote positive risk-taking using a strengths-based risk assessment approach.
Support patients to engage with community-based and neighbourhood services, to help avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
Improve individuals' social functioning and social inclusion and tackle issues such as loneliness and isolation that impact health and wellbeing through collaboration with other agencies.
Work in partnership with carers so that carers are supported in their role and signposted where appropriate to carers' support services.
Protect the emotional and physical safety of staff - as per risk management policies, staff wellbeing policy & supervision policy.
Work in partnership with local authority social care colleagues to promote holistic assessment, care planning, interventions and outcome.
Candidate Information Pack Dec 24
The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.
Fit for the Future 10 Year Health Plan for England (2025) is the main strategic driver for change for Older adults accessing health and social care services. The role will align with expectations for moving service provision from hospitals to the community, as well as with local and national ambitions for integrated neighbourhood teams. Place-based partnerships and integrated neighbourhood teams promote a focus on prevention and integration of statutory and voluntary agencies.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.
Visits to the team or questions are encouraged to appreciate this exciting and challenging role.
To provide immediate response, with meaningful occupation, provision of small pieces of equipment, and falls risk assessments.
Psychosocial interventions
Psychoeducational interventions
Cognitive interventions
Exercise interventions
Provision of equipment
Can undertake cognitive assessments
Use evidence-based OT models of practice as the basis of our assessments and interventions.
OT Case Formulation providing recommendations for future interventions.
Functional assessments – kitchen, day to day activities of daily living, shopping, money management etc.
Activity analysis - assessing activities of daily living, leisure and social engagement.
Assessing risks at home and in the community, developing risk management plans specific to activities.
Encouraging engagement / re-engagement in activity through problem solving and motivational interviewing (solution-focused approaches).
Education around strategies to support, e.g. mindfulness, nature-based activities etc.
Environmental adaptation – physical/social.
Sensory awareness – to help people build a picture of their own preferences and use these to become calm/alert as needed.
Behavioural Activation - increasing meaningful activity.
Advocacy and liaison with other agencies – working with systems/support around patient.
Carrying out assessment, including the completion of risk assessments.
Carrying out care-planning
Detailed job description and main responsibilities see separate JD
