Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-super-Mare
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our team at Long Fox Unit. The team is friendly and supportive; we are strongly committed to staff wellbeing, reflective practice, and continuing professional development.
This post provides an opportunity to consolidate and further develop your clinical and leadership skills working as an inpatient specialist Occupational Therapist. You will work as part of the team, supporting junior staff and students, as well as taking on a caseload of complex service users. This post will see you working across our inpatient adult of working ages, and mental health rehabilitation ward. You will complete comprehensive OT assessments with a focus on developing and maintaining independence during admission to support and facilitate discharge planning.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of the team, supporting junior staff and students, as well as taking on a caseload of complex service users.
- Work across our inpatient adult of working ages, and mental health rehabilitation ward.
- Complete comprehensive OT assessments with a focus on developing and maintaining independence during admission to support and facilitate discharge planning.
- Manage a complex caseload and be able to prioritize effectively to meet the demands of the service.
- Take students from the surrounding universities and provide regular supervision and training to support staff.
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Requirements
- Excellent and adaptable communication skills.
- A level of sensitivity and flexibility.
- Highly skilled in time management, prioritization, and risk assessment.
- Ability to manage a small caseload of individuals with complex needs.
- Skilled in delivering a range of group and individual person-centred interventions.
- Ability to deliver timely assessments to support safe and effective discharge planning.
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. 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: Zoe Tippetts
- Job title: Lead Occupational Therapist for Long Fox Unit
- Email address: zoe.tippetts@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01934 836505
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