Job Location : Salford, UK
Job Title: Occupational Therapist
Grade: Band 5
Trust: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust
Location: Bramley Street Rehab Unit
Hours: Mon - Fri 9-5
Pay rate: £15.67-£25.07 (uplifts for nights/weekends/Bank Hols)
End Date: September 2024
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust are currently seeking organised and motivated candidates to fulfil Band 5 Occupational Therapist opportunities within the team at Bramley Street Rehab unit under a long-term placement contract. Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills looking to embark on a new opportunity within the NHS? If so, we would like to hear from you today!
The post holder will ideally have previous NHS experience and will be working within the multidisciplinary team on the rehabilitation unit. They must have experience working with complex mental and physical health needs. They must be able to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a complex workload whilst working both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team.
High levels of both written and oral communication are essential to this post with the ability to deliver or discuss difficult diagnosis and prognosis with tact, empathy, managing distressed or aggressive patients or carers/relatives. The post holder must be able to communicate accurate and sensitive information to patients, carers, and relatives as well as within their own team & colleagues.
The postholder will manage their own caseload of patients and provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, triage, and management/treatment of patients whilst maintaining the associated records. The right applicant will be able to work efficiently and effectively as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a wider MDT with use of their own initiative to readjust and amend plans as per the patient’s needs. The postholder will be expected to deliver programmes of supported patient rehabilitation, in ways that facilitate behavioural change, optimise individuals' physical activity, mobility, fulfilment of personal goals and independence.
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Salary : 15.67 - 25.07
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