Our roles sit within the Community Service Line, which includes all community based mental health teams such as Integrated Recovery Hubs, Recovery and Support Teams and Early Intervention services. Our teams are expanding with new and exciting roles following a period of Transformation, providing opportunities for Occupational Therapists to work as pure OTs, fully using innovation and creativity to support clients with complex mental health needs to recover and step down from Mental Health Services.

We use the Model of Human Occupation to provide standardised assessments, a manualised evidence-based treatment called GLOW (Graduated Living Outside of the Ward) for individualised interventions, and an 8-week group intervention based on Recovery Through Activity to promote recovery goals focused on stepping down from services and reconnecting clients with community resources. All community OTs receive basic training in Sensory Profiling to support clients with additional sen...