Job summary
Are you looking for your next career step in a specialist hospital for Eating Disorders and Dementia?
Schoen Clinic York are looking for an Occupational Therapist whowill be responsible for assessing and treating patients for professional occupational therapy services in our specialist Eating Disorder and Dementia care setting.
Main duties of the job
You will undertake occupational therapy assessments, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the patient in all areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure. Work with both our Eating Disorder patients and Dementia care service users to identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan. You will be involved and take ownership of planning and implementing individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the patient, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals whilst monitoring and evaluating treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We offer expert assessment and bespoke, patient-focussed treatment pathways in a discreet, safe and therapeutic setting. We treat every patient as a partner in their care, using a Multidisciplinary Team approach and working in collaboration with patients, their families and the relevant community mental health teams to achieve the best possible clinical outcome.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We offer expert assessment and bespoke, patient-focussed treatment pathways in a discreet, safe and therapeutic setting. We treat every patient as a partner in their care, using a Multidisciplinary Team approach and working in collaboration with patients, their families and the relevant community mental health teams to achieve the best possible clinical outcome.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration and qualified as an Occupational Therapist
Experience
Essential
- You will have a good working knowledge of UK mental health law and a strong understanding and respect for confidentiality. You will have at least 6 months post qualification experience in a hospital or social care setting.
- You will have the ability to work within and support a team to achieve organisational goals and ensure that the company values are upheld and its goals are met.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration and qualified as an Occupational Therapist
Experience
Essential
- You will have a good working knowledge of UK mental health law and a strong understanding and respect for confidentiality. You will have at least 6 months post qualification experience in a hospital or social care setting.
- You will have the ability to work within and support a team to achieve organisational goals and ensure that the company values are upheld and its goals are met.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
