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Job overview

This Band 5 Occupational Therapy post is an exciting opportunity to gain skills in the specialist setting of a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), whilst being supported by a skilled Occupational Therapy team.

The post holder will be based with the broader hospital OT Team, in the Larch Therapy Department, but they will work as a PICU team with a Band 6 OT, Band 5 OT and two Band 3 OT Technicians, to provide an OT service to the 2 PICU wards. Both wards have an activity room for OT sessions, as well as therapy gardens.

 A knowledge of the VdT Model of Creative Ability and the Allen Cognitive Disability Model will therefore benefit any candidates applying for this post.

The hospital has 7 mental health inpatient wards across the site. The OT team are based in the Therapy Department, which also provides the post holder with the opportunity to liaise and work with experienced and skilled OTs, Exercise Specialists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Dietetics Team, and the Art Psychotherapy Team. The post holder will have the opportunity to facilitate groups  in the OT Department for service users across the hospital site.

You will be expected to be a reflective practitioner, committed to lifelong learning.   You will be expected to participate in activities related to your supervision and CPD and also team development, and  implementing, current evidence based intervention.  

Main duties of the job

• Professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously to deliver occupational therapy in a variety of inpatient and/or community settings including the service user’s own home.
• To develop and implement occupational therapy treatment plans and provide advice to service users to enable them to maintain, restore or create a balance between their abilities and the demands of their occupation and environment in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure. Service users have a range of mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
• To work compassionately with service users and carers to achieve identified occupational therapy goals and to promote social inclusion, independence and well-being through a client-centred approach.
• To provide the best possible experience for service users, carers and families
• To develop professional knowledge and skills through participation in preceptorship and competency framework to enable the post holder to take responsibility for service users with increasingly more diverse presentations and more complex problems
• To facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing clinical advice and training to occupational therapy associate practitioners, assistants and students as appropriate.
• To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities
• To promote at all times a positive image of the Occupational Therapy Service and the wider Trust. 

Working for our organisation

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.