Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Bath NHS House

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

We are looking for a highly motivated and creative Occupational Therapist with mental health practice experience to join the Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) Occupational Therapy Team. The team delivers assessment and intervention for adults of all ages with complex mental health needs in both inpatient and community settings in Bath and the surrounding area.
The team is friendly and supportive; we are strongly committed to staff wellbeing, reflective practice and continuing professional development.
The post is 30 hours per week, with some flexibility around working days.
The successful applicant will lead the Occupational Therapy service on a 15-bed female acute inpatient ward, consisting of a B5 Occupational Therapist, OT Technician and OT Apprentice, and will benefit from close working relationships with Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy colleagues.
The post holder will work closely with the ward MDT and community teams, providing the occupational perspective to support safe and timely discharges, and to deliver recovery-focussed interventions for service users who are acutely unwell. They will work autonomously, and be highly skilled in time management, prioritisation and risk assessment to be able to manage a small caseload effectively and safely. They will be experienced in delivering a range of group and individual occupational therapy assessments and interventions, and will take an active role in safe discharge planning when required.
The post is based in Bath , a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful city, surrounded by amazing countryside locations, and offering an impressive variety of arts, culture and sports. Easily commutable from surrounding areas, including excellent bus and rail links to Bristol, London and beyond, there is staff parking available as well as access to pool cars, charge points for electric cars, and lock up facilities for those cycling to work.
AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) is 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 BANES, 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 LGBTQI+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
BANES Occupational Therapy Team encourage and support engagement in CPD. Recent CPD opportunities have included training in sensory modulation for mental health and wellbeing, ACLS-6, MOHO formulation, Tai Chi Level 2, cognition and executive functioning, and specialist manual handling.
We prioritise both management and professional supervision, and training in both delivering and receiving supervision is available.
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