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. You will be working for one of UKs leading health care providers.
This special mental health service is a low secure hospital for males and females with mental illness and/or personality disorders.
To be considered for this position you must be qualified as an Occupational Therapist registered with the HCPC.
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
The successful Occupational Therapist will receive an excellent salary of GBP29,259 : GBP35,618 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role working 37.5 hours a week.
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 638 or send your CV.
Seniority Level
* Entry level
Employment Type
* Full-time
Job Function
* Health Care Provider
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