Occupational Therapist - Band 5 and 6 Opportunities
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Contract basis: Full Time
Contractual hours per week: 37.5
We are currently looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and ambitious Occupational Therapist to join our Birmingham OT team.
Birmingham Service, Inpatient Adult Mental Health
Band 5 and 6 opportunities available
Location: Stirchley, Birmingham
Band 5 Salary: From £30,989
Band 6 Salary: From £38,729
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
A bit about us
We are St Andrew’s, a mental health charity with a clear purpose: to inspire hope for people living with complex mental health needs. Our Birmingham site is on an ambitious improvement journey.
St Andrew’s Birmingham is a 125 bedded secure adult mental healthcare facility comprising eight units that cover medium and low security for both men and women. Located in Stirchley, a vibrant area in South Birmingham, easily accessible by road networks and public transport.
The Birmingham site has eight wards within a self-contained secure environment. There are a mix of low and medium secure wards with two wards offering services to women and male older adults. The site offers care and treatment to people with complex mental health and personality disorder diagnoses who require secure services. The service also benefits from other therapy resources such as an Art Studio, Workshop, Gym, Sports Hall, music space and courtyard area for horticulture.
Within the Occupational Therapy team, we offer comprehensive treatment through the medium of meaningful occupation. Our aim is to equip patients with the life skills required to live a life worth living through improved health and wellbeing, independence, purpose and balance within their daily living.
The Person and Role
You will contribute to a multi-disciplinary clinical team, taking responsibility for a clinical caseload, and offering OT specific assessment and treatment to groups and individuals within your care. Strong communication skills are essential, both written and verbal, with the ability to develop good professional relationships with your clinical team and the wider professional team.
You will be able to show a good understanding of occupational therapy within inpatient services, demonstrating the hope occupational therapists bring to the lives of those in our care. You will also be able to share your experience of applying the OT process to achieve positive patient outcomes and demonstrate how you promote the profession within your clinical team.
The charity values the importance of continued professional development. This includes a personal development plan with access to a preceptorship programme, internal CPD events, networking opportunities with colleagues and external training where deemed clinically appropriate.
You should have:
- Knowledge of mental health diagnoses and/or secure services
- An interest, knowledge and understanding of a range of guiding theoretical frameworks and approaches, for example Model of Human Occupation, VdT MoCA, occupational science, occupational diagnosis and sensory approaches
- Knowledge and experience in using occupational assessment tools to support clinical reasoning, treatment planning and evaluation of interventionsStrong communication skills
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