Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Callington Road Hospital, Bristol

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The Occupational Therapy Service at Callington Road Hospital is looking to recruit an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist who has an interest in working in mental health. The wards served by the team include PICU, Acute, Rehabilitation and Later Life.
The successful applicant will be based on the Rehabilitation ward initially and this post will provide the opportunity to develop and use a broad range of your OT skills. Knowledge of the VdT Model of Creative Ability, MOHO and Allen’s Cognitive Disability Model together with the use of a sensory approach to meet service users’ needs would also be beneficial.
Callington Road Hospital is an inpatient facility for adults experiencing mental health problems and the Occupational Therapy team share office facilities with the other specialist therapies teams.
You will be supported by senior OTs to use and further develop your professional skills. You will be expected to be a reflective practitioner, committed to lifelong learning. You will participate in activities related to your own CPD and also the team development, keeping abreast of and implementing, current evidence based intervention. Regular supervision and appraisal are an integrated part of our practice, and you will also have the opportunity to supervise junior OT staff members.
For further information please contact Pam Dove, Occupational Therapy Team Lead, on 0117 9195776.

Professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously to deliver occupational therapy in an inpatient setting.

• 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 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 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 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.

Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact

• Accountable for designated caseload, working within an evidenced based occupational therapy treatment plan and care programme approach under the guidance of the supervising occupational therapist. Service users may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and have difficult family situations of relevance.
• Undertakes occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits.
• Assesses and manages risk effectively in clinical and community settings including the service user’s own home
• Works with service users and carers to identify Occupational Therapy goals as part of the overall Multidisciplinary Team plan.
• Develops and implements individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user(s) and MDT to achieve therapeutic goals.
• Uses technical and creative skills to engage service users in therapeutic activities and encourages them in a compassionate manner, to support them in achieving their identified goals.
• Monitors and evaluates occupational therapy treatment in order to measure progress and modifies treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions.
• Provides reports on service user progress at clinical meetings and participates in the clinical decision-making process regarding service user care programmes as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provides advice, education and training to service users, carers and other healthcare staff involved in service users’ care.
• Undertakes health promotion activities.
• Assesses service users for and fits adapted equipment in the home, as appropriate.
• Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of service user harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the service user. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
• Demonstrates safe moving and handling of service users, using equipment as required.
• Demonstrates safe physical interventions in the management of violence and aggression as required.

Responsibility for Information Systems

• Responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive service user records using RIO or other electronic systems approved by the Trust and in accordance with the Trust and professional record keeping standards.

Staff Management, Training and Development, HR

• Provides training to occupational therapy assistants and students, monitoring and evaluating learning outcomes, providing feedback and assessing competencies to facilitate learning in practice.
• Identifies and meets the training needs of carers, volunteers, healthcare staff from other professions and outside agencies regarding occupational performance of service users.
• Provides clinical supervision to occupational therapy assistants.

Professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously to deliver occupational therapy in an inpatient setting.

• 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 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 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

Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact

• Accountable for designated caseload, working within an evidenced based occupational therapy treatment plan and care programme approach under the guidance of the supervising occupational therapist. Service users may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and have difficult family situations of relevance.
• Undertakes occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits.
• Assesses and manages risk effectively in clinical and community settings including the service user’s own home
• Works with service users and carers to identify Occupational Therapy goals as part of the overall Multidisciplinary Team plan.
• Develops and implements individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user(s) and MDT to achieve therapeutic goals.
• Uses technical and creative skills to engage service users in therapeutic activities and encourages them in a compassionate manner, to support them in achieving their identified goals.
• Monitors and evaluates occupational therapy treatment in order to measure progress and modifies treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions.
• Provides reports on service user progress at clinical meetings and participates in the clinical decision-making process regarding service user care programmes as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provides advice, education and training to service users, carers and other healthcare staff involved in service users’ care.
• Undertakes health promotion activities.
• Assesses service users for and fits adapted equipment in the home, as appropriate.
• Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of service user harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the service user. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
• Demonstrates safe moving and handling of service users, using equipment as required.
• Demonstrates safe physical interventions in the management of violence and aggression as required