Community Occupational Therapist: Learning DisabilitiesinBournemouthinBournemouthPUBLISHED WED 30 OCT 2024

Are you passionate about overcoming health inequalities, want to be creative with reasonable adjustments, and wish you knew more about supporting people with learning disabilities? The BCP Adult Learning Disability Service are offering a rare 6 month secondment opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join us. As an integrated health and social care team, this is an exciting opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.

You will be based in our Bournemouth office, near Ensbury Park, although the majority of the workload will be in community settings across Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP). The clients on your caseload will all have a Learning Disability (LD) and may include those with multiple disabilities, complex communication difficulties, sensory needs, and behaviours that challenge. A broad range of clinical experience is essential but does not need to be specific to the learning disabilities field. This is a challenging but rewarding role and no two days are ever the same.

Experience of working with people with Learning Disabilities is not vital, but a desire to work with this client group and a knowledge and understanding of their needs is important. Although this post is advertised as a full time post, part-time would be considered. This post would be perfectly suited to someone looking to spend 6 months developing their skills in working with people with learning disabilities.

Working alongside other Occupational Therapists based in the team, and with support from a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in the wider Learning Disability service, you will facilitate the development of the full range of function (physical, cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal) in the occupational areas of productivity, self care, and leisure, for people with Learning Disabilities who have been referred to Occupational Therapy for assessment and treatment.

This is an excellent opportunity to practice Occupational Therapy within the challenging and rewarding field of Community Learning Disabilities. If you are interested in developing your skills through supporting a diverse caseload, within a supportive multidisciplinary team, then we look forward to your application.

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For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

Dorset HealthCare is in partnership withThe Princes Trustto support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we offer an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. Please contact to access the support.

This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.