Occupational Therapy Practitioner

Overview

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. This special mental health service is a low secure hospital for males and females with mental illness and/or personality disorders.

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.

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 on 638 or send your CV.