Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews, is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Psychiatric Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.
Location: Weston-Super-Mare
Contract Type: Ongoing contract - Full Time
Pay Rate: £30 - £35 per hour (assignment rate)
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* Professional Development: Working as a locum provides opportunities for continuous professional development.
Duties of the Occupational Therapist:
* Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses.
* Providing a mental health consultation liaison and advice service.
* Delivering a range of nursing and psychosocial interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate.
* Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.
* Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff.
* Representing mental health services within the general hospital.
* Providing a communication structure between the general hospital, secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.
* Be responsible for the full assessment of care needs of patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated mental health and psychological problems.
* Provide a comprehensive consultation-liaison service to clinical teams, assisting them to formulate appropriate plans of care.
* Initiate and participate in the teaching and educational programmes of all grades of nursing and non-nursing staff.
* Maintain a small caseload of patients, providing a broad range of treatments and clinical interventions.
* Participate fully in appropriate quality assurance initiatives.
* Promote a positive attitude and encourage a supportive culture in relation to mental health and psychiatric illness across the general hospital.
Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:
* Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy.
* Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist.
* Recent NHS experience.
* Registered with the HCPC.
Contact:
This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by George Casselton; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists as well as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.
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