Job vacancy: Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-super-Mare, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Weston super Mare

Job summary

Main area: Band 6 Older Adults of Working Age
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Secondment: 9 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 342-NS058-0825

Employer: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Long Fox Unit
Town: Weston super Mare
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/09/2025 23:59

Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-super-Mare

Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

To provide high quality, evidence based occupational therapy assessments & interventions, treatment planning and continued patient-centred care. We aim to enable service users to achieve their maximum level of function and independence in preparation for discharge.

This will include:

Undertaking comprehensive, person-centred OT assessment and interventions.

Preparing and implementing treatment plans and rehab programmes in consultation with the service users.

Reviewing the effectiveness of therapy provided in partnership with service users.

Ability to implement research based practice.

Provide leadership and guidance to registered and non-registered staff and students.

Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual service users, groups and a variety of activities.

Have an understanding of the relevant mental health legislation and be able within practice.

To be able to provide advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the service users social and physical environment.

Communications and Working Relationships

Establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with a client group that can be challenging due to their mental health issues eg dementia or acute psychosis.

Establish and maintain effective exchange of clinical information between relevant parties that may include MDT, carers, families, partner organisations or voluntary third section organisation.

To be responsible for communicating sensitive or complex information concerning service users to family and others involved in their care.

Provide professional advice and consultancy to the team manager, Multi professional team members, carers and other services.

Be aware of Trust developments through the use of intranet and e-mail.

Education and Health Promotion

To use skills, knowledge and resources to provide learning opportunities for staff and promote positive attitudes towards mental health. This will include:

Providing clinical supervision through 1:1 and group base for registered and unregistered staff.

Continued support of OT students on practice placements within the Trust.

Provide a positive learning environment for students’, OT staff and the wider MDT.

There will opportunities for CPD development and training relevant to the role.

Person specification

Shortlisting

Essential criteria

OT qualification
HCPC Registered
Experience working as an OT in NHS setting
Supported students and unregistered staff
Experience of MDT working

Desirable criteria

Experience working in Mental Health
Knowledge of Sensory Processing
Knowledge of VdT MoCA model
Completed access and home visits

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms that can be used to produce new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. It is developing all the time and is now being used as a support mechanism for all kinds of content-based creations. Please note the use of AI is monitored and if you have used it in your application you are required to declare this.

Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Zoe Tippetts
Job title: Lead Occupational Therapist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01934 836505

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