Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-Super-Mare

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The North Somerset area of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is now seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our team within a mental health setting to use their skills to assess and treat the complex needs of people with both mental health and physical problems. This unique opportunity will see you providing Occupational Therapy interventions across two later life wards at the Long fox Unit.
Our current team consists of OT assistants, preceptor OT’s, band 6 OT’s and Zoe Tippetts, the manager.

This exciting opportunity will allow you to utilise your skills across the 2 wards in North Somerset:

• Older adult functional.
• Older adult organic.

Within this post you will have the opportunity to develop your skills as a holistic practitioner whilst having the full support of your OT colleagues and wider multidisciplinary team. Within this post you will complete comprehensive OT assessments with a focus on developing and maintaining independence during admission to support and facilitate discharge planning. This can be carried out through 1:1 assessments, group work and MDT working.
We welcome all experienced OT’s who have a keen interest in Mental Health and Dementia to apply for the job role.
Working as a specialist occupational therapist you will provide occupational therapy assessment and interventions working within the in-Patient wards in North Somerset.
You will work with the band 7 occupational therapist and the wider OT team of registered OT’s, an OT apprentice and OT support worker, to coordinate and support the day to day running of the service, you will supervise OT staff and be committed to supporting students on placements. There will be an opportunity to develop within a speciality and progress your career journey in occupational therapy.
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 is central to helping our patients improve their mental health, recover independence and return to their community. Our staff are pivotal to everything we do and we are committed to involving them fully in the development of our services.
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 Practice
To provide high quality, evidence based occupational therapy assessments & interventions, treatment planning and continued patient-centred care. We aim to enable service users to achieve their maximum level of function and independence in preparation for discharge.

Please refer the Job description for details