Occupational Therapist

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Occupational Therapist to join our dedicated team. In this role, you will play a vital part in supporting service users with complex needs, empowering them to achieve their goals and enhance their well-being.

• Develop and maintain strong therapeutic relationships with service users, understanding their unique circumstances and tailoring interventions accordingly.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to identify service users' strengths, challenges, and goals related to daily living activities, work, leisure, and social participation.
• Design and implement individualized treatment plans that promote independence, functional skills, and overall quality of life.
• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, sharing expertise and contributing to holistic care planning.
• Promote the value of occupational therapy within the organization and wider healthcare community.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, enabling the formation and maintenance of strong therapeutic alliances with service users facing diverse and complex needs.
• Proficiency in basic word processing and IT applications.
• A high standard of written communication skills.
• The ability to effectively advocate for occupational therapy within multidisciplinary teams and the broader organization.

Essential qualities include:

• The capacity to work independently, setting priorities and managing time effectively.
• A commitment to self-reflection and critical appraisal of own performance.
• The ability to empower staff by facilitating the development and application of their knowledge and skills in practice.
• Strong presentation skills.
• A dedication to role modeling positive professional behavior.

Essential requirements include:

• The ability to identify and assess potential risks associated with work activities for oneself and others.
• A commitment to monitoring work areas and practices to ensure a safe, healthy, and secure working environment.

Essential skills encompass:

• The ability to adapt one's practice and style of working to meet the evolving needs of services.
• Audit skills.
• The capacity to identify strategies that enhance service effectiveness.

Essential qualities include:

• The ability to apply equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory interventions that respect the customs, values, and spiritual beliefs of service users.
• The capacity to identify patterns of discrimination and take appropriate action.
• A commitment to promoting a culture of recovery and social inclusion.

Essential requirements include:

• The ability to assess complex health and well-being needs, developing, monitoring, and reviewing care plans to address those needs.
• The capacity to undertake clinical risk assessments and apply effective risk management strategies.
• The ability to independently manage a challenging caseload of patients.
• Specialist clinical skills relevant to the target service user group.

A working knowledge of models of human occupation tools would be advantageous.