Allied Health Professionals Recruitment Events July 2024

We are thrilled to announce our first Allied Health Professionals Recruitment Event this July 17/18th July. On the 17th we are excited to invite you to the trust to meet our teams in-person and discuss our current opportunities. On the 18th July we will be holding a virtual online event offering exciting information about the opportunities within our AHP community at GMMH.  
 
We are looking for passionate AHPs and soon to be graduates to join our dedicated and united workforce. We are committed to supporting you in your career journey providing ample opportunities for you to achieve and succeed.   

17th Jul 2024 - Face to face – 5.30pm - 8.30pm 

Location: The Curve, Bury New Road, Prestwich, M25 3BL 
Itinerary: 
5 pm - 6 pm Welcome  
6 pm - 6:30 pm - Trust overview, values, opportunities and support offer.
                          5 min presentation from OT leads / AHP Leads 
                          Structure: Geography, services / MDT, opportunities, wellbeing, support and summary 

  6:30 pm - 9 pm - Interviews / Information sharing about different roles and opportunities available for OTs in GMMH. 

Click here to register your interest for our in-person event 

 

18th Jul 2024 - Virtual - 6pm - 8pm 

Location: Microsoft Teams Invite  
Itinerary:  
6 pm - 6:30 pm - Trust introduction and overview, values, opportunities and support offer.  
                          Presentations from OT leads / AHP Leads  
                          Structure: Geography, services / MDT, opportunities, wellbeing, support and summary  

   6:30 pm - 8 pm - Breakout room opportunities to speak to managers and staff across the AHP services.  

Click here to register your interest for our virtual event   

 There will be opportunities to interview on the day or shortly afterwards with dates to be provided. 

 

Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in GMMH 

Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) have a significant role to play to provide services at every stage of life and across settings. As the third largest clinical workforce group in health and care in England, AHPs have an incredible potential to transform our current and future services. The NHS Long Term Plan describes AHPs as playing a central role in the delivery of person-centred care to children, adults, and older adults to help meet the changing demands the NHS is facing. The Mental Health Workforce Plan for England’ (2017) also highlights the vital and varied role of AHPs as first responders, in diagnosis, self-management, rehabilitation, and recovery of everyday life. 

AHPs are key to transforming health, care, and wellbeing. Working at the top of their competencies and skills, AHPs lead mental health, learning disability and autism teams to new ways of working. Their expertise in rehabilitation and enablement is vital to moving away from over-reliance on hospital-based care. AHPs can provide professional and tailored interventions in local communities, primary, secondary, specialist, and community care in addition to across health and social care settings. 

We have occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians, speech and language therapists, arts therapists, music therapists, drama therapists, podiatrists and paramedics working as part of multidisciplinary teams in GMMH. AHPs are employed in health and care services to diagnose, treat, and support individuals to overcome the physical challenges, that can be associated with their mental health conditions. 

AHPs in mental health practice can work in a wide range of service settings including primary care, community, hospital, education, criminal justice, community voluntary sectors. Positioned across care pathways, settings, and age groups, AHPs bring expertise and efficiency to services by: 

• Bringing connectivity of physical and mental health interventions to tackle health inequalities.  

• Help maintain healthy lifestyles through health promoting intervention.  

• Delivering specialist early and longer-term, mental health intervention with users of services, their families, and carer ' s.  

• Working with people with mild-moderate conditions through to those with complex care needs.  

• Offering a diverse range of assessments and interventions to support people ‘ s rehabilitation and recovery.  

• Enabling integrated pathways for services users to have all their needs addressed.  

• Developing integrated care pathways to provide a strategic overview for commissioning activities.  

• Working in partnership with the person and their family, the multidisciplinary team, and local communities to optimise and maintain the person ’ s physical and mental health, function, and quality of life. 
   

Current Opportunities 

Occupational therapists (OTs) offer a recovery, person centred approach to empower people to improve their engagement in whatever is meaningful occupations for them.  OT interventions are carefully graded taking into account the person’s physical, social and emotional environment and skills to overcome barriers and promote independence. Occupational therapists use their skills to provide person centered care in varied inpatients and community settings including adults of working age, perinatal, older adults, CAMHS, and forensic services.