Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Bristol
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This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.
Role Overview
You will be joining a small and supportive team of occupational therapists working on the inpatient older adult ward of Aspen who support adults with functional mental health conditions. The team consists of OT's and OT support staff who work alongside physiotherapists, arts psychotherapists, psychology staff as well as the wider nursing and medical team, providing specialist assessments and interventions, supporting patients in their recovery and community discharge.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop your practice in working with older adults using a range of specialist assessments and practice models such as ACLs, VdT MOCA & sensory profiles.
- Contribute to the group programme alongside colleagues.
- Carry a caseload, assessing and providing treatment plans for older adults with functional mental illness.
- Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in assessing and planning needs on discharge from hospital, to support occupation, recovery and safety in the community.
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Opportunities
- Callington Road Hospital provides a range of ward services and you will have the opportunity to share practice, supervision and resources with a large occupational therapy team on site as well as the later life services in South Gloucestershire including the South Glos Later Life Therapies Team.
- Regularly offer fieldwork placements to occupational therapy students from Bristol UWE.
- Participate in our well-established CPD programme.
- Regular training and development is actively encouraged.
About Us
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.
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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 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million 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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Paula Clough
Job title: Therapies Team Manager
Email address: paula.clough@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0117 3784640
If you would like to visit the unit please contact Rob Dixon, Band 6 OT via e-mail: robert.dixon2@nhs.net
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