Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-super-Mare

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Long Fox Unit. The post focuses on inpatient specialist OT, with opportunities to develop clinical and leadership skills while supervising junior staff and students.

You will manage a complex caseload, deliver individual and group interventions, contribute to discharge planning, and collaborate with the MDT to support patients back to community living.

Qualifications

• Experienced and enthusiastic occupational therapist in mental health.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist occupational therapy assessments at Long Fox Unit and Elmham Way.
• Work autonomously with a small caseload of individuals with complex needs.
• Lead and supervise students and junior staff.
• Contribute to discharge planning and MDT collaboration.
• Provide home assessments and community access visits.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Supervision

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our team at Long Fox Unit. The team is friendly and supportive; we are strongly committed to staff wellbeing, reflective practice and continuing professional development.

This post provides an opportunity to consolidate and further develop your clinical and leadership skills working as an inpatient specialist Occupational Therapist. You will work as part of the team, supporting junior staff and students, as well as taking on a caseload of complex service users. This post will see you working across our inpatient adult of working ages, and mental health rehabilitation ward. You will complete comprehensive OT assessments with a focus on developing and maintaining independence during admission to support and facilitate discharge planning.

The post holder will require excellent and adaptable communication skills and require a level of sensitivity and flexibility. You are required to manage a complex caseload and be able to priorities effectively to meet the demands of the service. The post holder will be required to take students from the surrounding universities and provide regular supervision and training to support staff.

Within the trust there are excellent training opportunities and CPD development and you will be provided with regular supervision within Trust guidance. We welcome all experienced OT's who have a keen interest in Mental Health to apply for the job role.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will deliver specialist occupational therapy assessment at Long Fox Unit and Elmham Way.

You will work autonomously, be highly skilled in time management, prioritisation and risk assessment, and be able to manage a small caseload of individuals with complex needs. You will work closely with the MDT, providing the occupational perspective, to support service users on the ward. You will be skilled in delivering a range of group and individual person-centred interventions and will be responsible for delivering timely assessments to support safe and effective discharge planning.

Working as a specialist occupational therapist you will provide Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions within the inpatients wards at North Somerset. You will work with the band 7 Occupational Therapist and the wider OT team of registered OTS's and OT assistants to co-ordinate and support the day to day running of the service, you will supervise OT staff and be committed to supporting students.

You will be required to work within the hospital but also facilitate home assessments and community access visits. We believe that delivering person-focused care to helping our patients improve their mental health, recover independence and return to their community.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.