Occupational Therapist (Band 5)
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £29,544 to £31,865 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | South Normanton, DE55 3AA |
| Company: | Cygnet |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 35902 |
Summary
Are you an Occupational Therapist who would like to explore a rewarding career experience?
About Us
Cygnet was established in 1988 as an independent provider of health and social care services in England, Scotland and Wales.
Your Role
Position: Occupational Therapist
Salary: £29,544 per year and increasing to £31,865 per year after preceptorship
Hours: Full Time - 40 hrs per week, Monday to Friday between 9:00am and 5:00pm
Service Line: High dependency inpatient rehabilitation – Male mental health
Cygnet Storthfield House is a 22 bed specialist high dependency inpatient rehabilitation service for men dedicated to providing a high quality environment for promoting long-term recovery. Our facilities and multi-disciplinary treatment programme are designed to assist individuals with their return to community living. Those placed with us often come from multiple placement breakdowns, failed treatment programmes or are stepping down from secure settings.
By combining a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach, we deliver high-quality care using our unique 4 stage model of care for our mental health high dependency inpatient rehabilitation services.
Our dedicated clinical team provide a multi-disciplinary input including occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatry and vocational training. However, we offer more than just specialists and treatments, we value the service users as individuals, help enhance their interests and abilities, encourage them to share their views and help them unlock their talents and aspirations.
Occupational Therapy Directorate
Under the leadership of our occupational therapy directors we support over 150 Occupational Therapists. Working together as a large team we provide support to each other across the group, with the opportunity to be part of specialist interest groups & become involved in service development.
Every service line has a clinical lead occupational therapist to lead and develop evidence based practice and agreed occupational therapy pathway.
We ensure our occupational therapists have a voice through participating in service model development, utilising the expertise and support of our clinical lead occupational therapists.
Occupational Therapy Preceptorship & Induction:
We understand the pandemic has brought with it challenging times, and we recognise this may have had an impact on some of your placement experiences. We offer an Occupational Therapy 12 month preceptorship programme to support and consolidate core Occupational Therapy Skills.
For more insight into life as an OT at Cygnet Health Care visit:
https://join.cygnethealth.co.uk/ot-life/
Here you can listen to the opinions, stories and advice from our exceptional OTs – it could help the next step in your career.
Cygnet Sherwood House has become our latest service to gain a new Social Hub.
Working from a wish list of items provided by service users, a team of staff and Experts by Experience got together to spend a day transforming an activity room into a brand new space featuring games consoles, arcade machines, sensory lighting and a newly clothed pool table.
Check out the stunning makeover in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veA8GHnYfms
5 reasons why you should make an application today…
- We care about people in our services
- Expert clinical supervision and protected time for a weekly 1:1 with your clinical supervisor
- Induction & service line training in area of specialism
- Dedicated CPD time for peer support, skill development and specialist training
- We support and develop you to build skills and confidence for the next level in your career.
Cygnet Health Care Benefits
- Free parking
- Free meals for staff on duty
- Relocation package available
- Group pension plan helping you save for your future
- NHS Discount Cards & Blue Light Card (includes big brand discounts)
- Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, financial and mental health advice.
- Plus much more…
A career at Cygnet comes with excellent benefits. Whether it’s saving you money on the high street, with healthcare, holidays & leisure – or securing your future with professional development and a pension – we support you to be ha
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme