Occupational Therapist

As the Senior Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for assessing and treating patients for professional occupational therapy services in a specialist setting. You will manage the caseload whilst prioritising patient needs and will provide occupational therapy advice to other disciplines where needed and supervise the Occupational Therapy department team at the Newbridge site. Here are some of the key things you'll be responsible for: You will be required to undertake occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the patient in all areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.

• Work with patients to identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan
• Plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the patient, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals
• Monitor and evaluate treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention
• Supervising the site based Occupational Therapy team
• Engage in and contribute to service development activities
  
  The successful candidate will have professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent, a good working knowledge of UK mental health law and HCPC registered.
  
  Schoen Clinic Newbridge is a multi-award-winning and specialist eating disorder hospital, providing inpatient, outpatient and daycare services to young people aged 8-18 years.
Schoen Clinic culture Our culture of world-class medical excellence is based around our five key values:
• Accountable: Taking ownership of the things I say and do
• Caring: Treating others as I would like to be treated
• Collaborative: Working together to make a winning team
• Courageous: Being proud to be different and challenge the norm
• Determined: Seeing things through to meet and exceed expectations
  
  You will have access to a wide range of benefits which include (but not limited to):
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, which increases with the length of service
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
• Paid emergency leave
• Professional development opportunities so that you can build your career with us
• Contributory pension scheme with Royal London
• Enhanced Private Medical Insurance with BUPA including access to a private GP service, free screening, and the inclusion of pre-existing conditions.
• Dental Cover
• Recognition schemes for employees
• Eye care scheme with Specsavers
• Online benefits portal with high street and online shopping discounts
• Winter flu jabs
• EAP assistance on a range of topics and concerns