Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol
Job overview
Band 5 Occupational Therapist – Secure Services – Bristol
Full-time, 9 month fixed term opportunity available.
An opportunity has arisen to join our large and enthusiastic occupational therapy team here in Secure Services. Fromeside is a regional medium secure unit, which provides a service to 81 in-patient service users with mental health needs. Wickham unit is a 31-bedded low secure service, providing recovery-focussed care.
The occupational therapy team is a well-established, integral and valued part of the multi-disciplinary clinical team. Within the role, you will work closely with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary team to provide a direct clinical service to in-patients with mental health needs in either of our low or medium secure units.
Main duties of the job
Working as a key part of the team, you will routinely undertake all aspects of the Occupational Therapy process, including assessing each service user’s occupational functioning; planning, implementing and reviewing appropriate interventions and treatment methods.You will be able to employ a range of individual and group interventions, which embrace social inclusion and recovery principles at their core. You will benefit from working with a large and supportive team, within a unique and innovative environment.
On joining the team, you will receive a comprehensive structured induction package. We offer a preceptorship package for newly qualified Occupational Therapists and run monthly CPD sessions to ensure we are up to date with best practice and developing ideas.Within the team and across the wider service promote all aspects of continuing professional development, we meet monthly as a group of registered Occupational Therapists to focus on developing our assessment and reporting skills as well as taking part in additional training opportunities for expanding our skillset.
Due to the complex nature of the work we carry out and the environment that we work in, we place great value upon the use of supervision and each member of the team will be in receipt of at least monthly clinical supervision, monthly management supervision and the opportunity to attend monthly reflective practice with the wider team.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously to deliver occupational therapy in a variety of inpatient and/or community settings including the service user’s own home.
To develop and implement occupational therapy treatment plans and provide advice to service users to enable them to maintain, restore or create a balance between their abilities and the demands of their occupation and environment in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.
Service users have a range of mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
To work compassionately with service users and carers to achieve identified occupational therapy goals and to promote social inclusion, independence and well-being through a client-centred approach.
To provide the best possible experience for service users, carers and families.
To develop professional knowledge and skills through participation in preceptorship and competency framework to enable the post holder to take responsibility for service users with increasingly more diverse presentations and more complex problems.
To facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing clinical advice and training to occupational therapy associate practitioners, assistants and students as appropriate.
To be committed to and involved in activities integral to Quality Improvement.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities.
To promote at all times a positive image of the Occupational Therapy Service and the wider Trust.
We are keen to encourage creativity and staff development and regular, supportive clinical supervision and line-management will be provided.
If you have any questions reading this post or the service, please do contact us via the contact details provided below.
We look forward to receiving your application
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification attached.
We are keen to encourage creativity and staff development and regular, supportive clinical supervision and line-management will be provided.
If you have any questions reading this post or the service, please do contact us via the contact details provided below.
We look forward to receiving your application
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria- Relevant professional OT qualification
- Current HCPC registration
- Previous experience in relevant heath setting
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings
- Experience using both group and individual treatment skills
- Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches
- Accurate Record keeping
- IT skills
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
- An understanding of Model Of Human Occupation (MOHO)
This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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