Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-super-Mare

The successful applicant will deliver specialist occupational therapy assessment at Long Fox Unit and Elmham Way.

You will work autonomously, be highly skilled in time management, prioritisation and risk assessment, and be able to manage a small caseload of individuals with complex needs. You will work closely with the MDT, providing the occupational perspective, to support service users on the ward. You will be skilled in delivering a range of group and individual person-centred interventions and will be responsible for delivering timely assessments to support safe and effective discharge planning.

Working as a specialist occupational therapist you will provide Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions within the inpatients wards at North Somerset. You will work with the band 7 Occupational Therapist and the wider OT team of registered OTS's and OT assistants to co-ordinate and support the day to day running of the service, you will supervise OT staff and be committed to supporting students.

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 to helping our patients improve their mental health, recover independence and return to their community.

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.

Essential and desireable

Essential: - HCPC registered; - Mental Health Experience; - Models (MOHO/MoCA); - Day-to-day supervision of staff/students

Desirable: - ACLs-6 experience; - Sensory experience; - Two years post qualifying experience