Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Weston-super-Mare
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS TrustWeston super Mare, South West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust based in Weston super Mare. The advertised salary is £39,959 to £48,117. It is an Band 6 post. Applications close on 22 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our team at Long Fox Unit. The team is friendly and sup...
The successful applicant will deliver specialist occupational therapy assessment at Long Fox Unit and Elmham Way.
You will work autonomously, be highly skilled in time management, prioritisation and risk assessment, and be able to manage a small caseload of individuals with complex needs. You will work closely with the MDT, providing the occupational perspective, to support service users on the ward. You will be skilled in delivering a range of group and individual person-centred interventions and will be responsible for delivering timely assessments to support safe and effective discharge planning.
Working as a specialist occupational therapist you will provide Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions within the inpatients wards at North Somerset. You will work with the band 7 Occupational Therapist and the wider OT team of registered OTS's and OT assistants to co-ordinate and support the day to day running of the service, you will supervise OT staff and be committed to supporting students.
You will be required to work within the hospital but also facilitate home assessments and community access visits. We believe that delivering person-focused care to helping our patients improve their mental health, recover independence and return to their community.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Essential: - HCPC registered; - Mental Health Experience; - Models (MOHO/MoCA); - Day-to-day supervision of staff/students
Desirable: - ACLs-6 experience; - Sensory experience; - Two years post qualifying experience
How this role compares
We hold 879 NHS vacancies in South West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role sits close to the middle of the range.
There are 12,570 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,347 of them in South West.
You have 16 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 33 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has 37 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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