Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Callington Road Hospital, Bristol

The Occupational Therapy Service at Callington Road Hospital is looking to recruit an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist who has an interest in working in mental health. The wards served by the team include PICU, Acute, Rehabilitation and Later Life. The successful applicant will be based on the Rehabilitation ward initially and this post will provide the opportunity to develop and use a broad range of your OT skills. Knowledge of the VdT Model of Creative Ability, MOHO and Allen's Cognitive Disability Model together with the use of a sensory approach to meet service users' needs would also be beneficial. Callington Road Hospital is an inpatient facility for adults experiencing mental health problems and the Occupational Therapy team share office facilities with the other specialist therapies teams. You will be supported by senior OTs to use and further develop your professional skills. You will be expected to be a reflective practitioner, committed to lifelong learning. You will participate in activities related to your own CPD and also the team development, keeping abreast of and implementing, current evidence based intervention. Regular supervision and appraisal are an integrated part of our practice, and you will also have the opportunity to supervise junior OT staff members., Professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously to deliver occupational therapy in an inpatient setting.

• To develop and implement occupational therapy treatment plans and provide advice to serviceusers to enable them to maintain, restore or create a balance between their abilities and thedemands 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 occupationaltherapy 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 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 trainingto occupational therapy associate practitioners, assistants and students as appropriate.
• To be committed to activities integral to Quality Improvement.
• To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learningdisabilities.
• To promote at all times a positive image of the Occupational Therapy Service and the widerTrust.
  
  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.