Overview
An amazing new job opportunity has arisen for a committed Occupational Therapist to work in an exceptional mental health service based in the Ayr, Scotland area. This special mental health service is a low secure hospital for males and females with mental illness and/or personality disorders.
Key Responsibilities
* Undertake patient assessment and observation to identify patient need before planning and delivering appropriate and relevant interventions on either a group of individual basis.
* Maintain and develop close working relationships with professional and clinical colleagues within the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that clinical practice is in line with company policies and procedures.
* Support junior occupational therapy staff and students.
* Lead on further development and implementation of occupational therapy service within the site, under supervision of Lead Occupational Therapist.
* Organise and deliver therapeutic activities for service users.
* Assess service users response to interventions in accordance with agreed models of practice.
* Provide practical support, advice and education to service users, carers and other disciplines.
* Be responsible for the recording of all patient related activity information.
Preferred Skills and Experience
* Relevant clinical experience with mental illness and/or personality disorder.
* Extensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches.
* Demonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills.
* Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models.
* Knowledge of how to work with neurodiverse individuals.
Benefits
* 25 days annual leave (increasing with length of service to a maximum of 30).
* Birthday off.
* Contributory pension scheme.
* Life insurance.
* Opportunities to develop and progress in a wide variety of care settings.
* Free car parking.
* Subsidised on site meals.
* Employee benefits scheme (e.g. discounted shopping vouchers, interest free Apple products loan scheme).
* Full onsite induction training and orientation programme.
Reference ID: 6131. For this fantastic job role, please call on 638 or send your CV.
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