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About the Role
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to work in a Dementia hospital environment or start your portfolio?
As a Bank Occupational Therapist, you will work with the MDT to undertake occupational therapy assessments. You will address occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling the patient in all areas of self-maintenance, productivity, and leisure.
You will work with your service users to identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan whilst planning and implementing individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the service user, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
You will monitor and evaluate treatment to measure progress with your service users and ensure the effectiveness of the intervention.
Skills & requirements
As an Occupational Therapist registered with the HCPC, you will bring proven experience from a hospital or primary care setting. Understanding mental health practice models like MOHO, along with the ability to explain, encourage, and build rapport with patients, is essential.
You will possess key skills including dexterity, coordination, and proficiency with specialist equipment. You must respect confidentiality and work effectively within a team to achieve organisational goals, while also being capable of leading independently when necessary.
You will be able to adapt to changing environments, have strong decision-making skills, and workload management is crucial.
Details
Location
Schoen Clinic York
Contract Type
Bank
Working Pattern
Shifts will be ad-hoc to cover Monday - Friday
Hourly Rate
£20
About your future team
The Schoen Clinic Group (schoen-klinik.de) was founded in 1985 and has since developed into Germany's fifth-largest privately-owned hospital group, with 12,000 employees. It currently treats around 300,000 patients annually at 16 hospitals and 30 outpatient and day-clinic facilities in Germany and the UK. The group also includes the leading online telemedicine clinic: MindDoc.
Schoen Clinic entered the UK healthcare market in 2017, providing award-winning, expert-led healthcare specialising only in certain areas of medicine – mental health, complex dementia care and eating disorders at Schoen Clinic Chelsea, and Schoen Clinic York.