Band 5 Rotational Occupational Therapist - Salisbury
Salisbury, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 9 hours ago
If you are a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, newly qualified, about to graduate or looking for a chance to develop a variety of experience in a mental health this could be the role for you.
Starting on Amblescroft South, providing inpatient assessments to older adults who are experiencing an organic condition. There would also be the opportunity to spend a day a week working with the Community OT.
In further rotations there would be an opportunity to work on Beechlydene, an acute working age adult ward and to work on Amblescroft North, providing specialist mental health treatment for older adults who may be frail or have multiple physical health conditions, and are experiencing a functional mental health illness.
We are a supportive team and can offer regular supervision, preceptorship, exciting training opportunities and links to the wider therapy team in AWP. You will have support of Band 6 and Band 7 Occupational Therapists and work with Occupational Therapy Assistants and apprentices.
We are looking for Occupational Therapists who are passionate about mental health and ready to develop their occupational therapy skills. You will be working as part of the multidisciplinary team with other allied health professionals, nursing and medical colleagues, focussing on mental health recovery, but additionally physical function and practical abilities of service users.
Responding to the needs of the service, under supervision and working alongside experienced Occupational Therapists and support staff you will develop your skills in a range of OT assessments and group interventions. You will be equipped with training and a toolbox of assessments that can be used, including Vona du Toit Model of Creative Ability, Allen Cognitive Level Screen assessment and Model of Human Occupation. You will need to be a flexible and versatile practitioner who is committed to lifelong learning in order to deliver to an outstanding service. Reflective practice and the use of evidence based interventions will enable you to grow in confidence in this role.
You will be an active and involved member of the multidisciplinary team with an emphasis of developing integrated and meaningful person centred plans of care and promoting the OT role. You will be required to work both in the ward environment but also conduct home assessments to facilitate a safe discharges.
You will have the opportunity to develop the service and the OT team are currently exploring the use of therapeutic garden spaces on the ward.
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.
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 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Megan Moody Job title: Occupational Therapist Lead for Wiltshire Email address: megan.moody4@nhs.net Telephone number: 07514722826
Please do not hesitate to contact Megan Moody, Lead Occupational Therapist to find out more about the role, arrange a visit or ask any questions, megan.moody4@nhs.net.
Starting on Amblescroft South, providing inpatient assessments to older adults who are experiencing an organic condition. There would also be the opportunity to spend a day a week working with the Community OT.
In further rotations there would be an opportunity to work on Beechlydene, an acute working age adult ward and to work on Amblescroft North, providing specialist mental health treatment for older adults who may be frail or have multiple physical health conditions, and are experiencing a functional mental health illness.
We are a supportive team and can offer regular supervision, preceptorship, exciting training opportunities and links to the wider therapy team in AWP. You will have support of Band 6 and Band 7 Occupational Therapists and work with Occupational Therapy Assistants and apprentices.
We are looking for Occupational Therapists who are passionate about mental health and ready to develop their occupational therapy skills. You will be working as part of the multidisciplinary team with other allied health professionals, nursing and medical colleagues, focussing on mental health recovery, but additionally physical function and practical abilities of service users.
Responding to the needs of the service, under supervision and working alongside experienced Occupational Therapists and support staff you will develop your skills in a range of OT assessments and group interventions. You will be equipped with training and a toolbox of assessments that can be used, including Vona du Toit Model of Creative Ability, Allen Cognitive Level Screen assessment and Model of Human Occupation. You will need to be a flexible and versatile practitioner who is committed to lifelong learning in order to deliver to an outstanding service. Reflective practice and the use of evidence based interventions will enable you to grow in confidence in this role.
You will be an active and involved member of the multidisciplinary team with an emphasis of developing integrated and meaningful person centred plans of care and promoting the OT role. You will be required to work both in the ward environment but also conduct home assessments to facilitate a safe discharges.
You will have the opportunity to develop the service and the OT team are currently exploring the use of therapeutic garden spaces on the ward.
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.
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 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Megan Moody Job title: Occupational Therapist Lead for Wiltshire Email address: megan.moody4@nhs.net Telephone number: 07514722826
Please do not hesitate to contact Megan Moody, Lead Occupational Therapist to find out more about the role, arrange a visit or ask any questions, megan.moody4@nhs.net.
