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Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band 6)

Barnsley, S70 4PX
£36,808 – £38,845 p/a
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About the role

Overview

Barnsley, S70 4PX
Full Time
£36,808 – £38,845 p/a
12 December 2024

Are you an Occupational Therapist who would like to explore a rewarding career experience?

About Us

Cygnet Health Care was established in 1988 as an independent provider of health and social care services in England, Scotland and Wales.

Your Role

Service Line: Neurorehabilitation

Summary of the site: Cygnet Pindar House is our 22 bed Neuropsychiatric care and treatment service for men affected by acquired brain injuries. It is a safe and secure place to aid recovery as well as offering those diagnosed with a progressive neurological disease like Huntington’s Disease, a caring and longer term placement to support and help manage the progression of their symptoms. The service accepts unplanned, often urgent admissions where a service user requires a safe place to start treatment at the earliest possible time as well as planned admissions.

The service is a modern purpose-built facility, designed specifically to provide a clinically-led evidence-based neuropsychiatric pathway for individuals presenting with behaviours that challenge. Our focus is to create a therapeutic rich environment to engage the men in our care and offer them the opportunity to mmaximise their independence.

Our in-house Neuropsychiatry interdisciplinary team are able to support those with complex physical health needs and we have en-suite bedrooms located on the ground floor for men with mobility impairments.

Our person-centred approach puts the individual at the centre of their care and discharge planning. The service offers a wide range of activities and facilities to promote independent function. Positive behaviour goals are focused on discharge planning to support service users to return to community living – either with support or independently.

You will be the Band 6 Occupational Therapist onsite, and will be supported by a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, who you will supervise.

Occupational Therapy Directorate

Under the leadership of our occupational therapy directors we support over 150 Occupational Therapists and over 300 OT support staff. 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 therapy team members have a voice through participating in service model development, utilising the expertise and support of our clinical lead occupational therapists.

5 reasons why you should make an application today…

  1. We care about people in our services
  2. Expert clinical supervision and protected time for a weekly 1:1 with your clinical supervisor
  3. Induction & service line training in area of specialism
  4. Dedicated CPD time for peer support, skill development and specialist training
  5. 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 happy both in & out of work.

Apply now to enjoy excellent career prospects while reaping the rewards of making a difference to others – every day.

If you would like to discuss this role with the recruiting occupational therapist or arrange an informal visit, we’d be more than happy to facilitate this. Please contact: Kerry Booth (South Yorkshire Regional Lead OT) – KerryBooth@Cygnethealth.co.uk

Requirements
The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS and reference check and an offer of employment will be subject to successful clearance.

*Recruitment agencies please note: Speculative emails are not to be sent directly to our clinical staff, these need to go via our internal recruitment team. If speculative candidates are sent directly to a member of the clinical team, we will consider these candidates as our own*

Benefits & Rewards

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Group Pension

We’ll look after you beyond Cygnet by helping you save for your future with a pension scheme. Cygnet provides a monthly contribution into your pot for every month you actively pay in.

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Free Mortgage Broker & Insurance Cover

Cygnet understands that buying a home is probably the biggest and most important financial decision for most of us. As a result we have partnered with L&C to offer free mortgage advice, free insurance cover and receive a voucher on completion of your mortgage

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Enhanced Maternity

In addition to statutory pay, Cygnet provides enhanced maternity pay.

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Free Life Assurance Cover

Cygnet provides a Group Life assurance scheme which pays out a lump sum benefit to your family or next of kin in the event of your death whilst employed by Cygnet.

Plan your commute

Pindar House

Barnsley
Yorkshire & Humber
S70 4PX
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It is very challenging, but at the same time a very rewarding experience

88% of staff enjoy working for Cygnet

At Cygnet, you’ll work in incredible, inspiring teams and enjoy satisfying careers with plenty of opportunities to grow

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90% of staff said access to training has helped them in their role

No matter what your role is, we invest in your learning and development to help you achieve your career aspirations.

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Colleague to colleague endorsements

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Haley Hanson

Therapy Co-coordinator/ Support Worker
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Haley has recently joined the therapy team from support worker. Haley is very passion about her job. Patients here at aspen clinic requested therapy animals for a long time. Haley organised a donation day and raised money for us to have quails. She put forward the idea which was approved. Now we have our very own quails! Haley goes above and beyond

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Maria Iqbal

Team Leader
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Maria provided great comfort for one of our residents who really struggles having a blood test. She managed on 2 occasions to successfully support nursing staff to get very important blood tests completed for this resident. Thank you for your hard work comforting this resident Maria.

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Priyanka Bakshi

Counselling Psychologist
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Priyanka deserves to be rewarded for her hard work developing a functional analysis for a complex young person. Her work is helping our team to develop a formulation to understand the young person and support them in the best way. Priyanka has dedicated a lot of her time to this and we are very lucky to have her as a part of our team.

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Leanne Tonks

Nurse
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Leanne is someone who started at Cygnet in Domestic Services and has worked from this position to support, a nursing associate, and completed her nurse training with Cygnet. She is now employed on the same ward where she started and she is excelling in the role. She is confident and competent and she has a can do attitude and gets tasks completed.

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Kristina Robinson

Cleaner
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Kristina goes above and beyond every single day at work, she is incredible at supporting the residents and having the ‘on the spot’ tools and knowledge to diffuse situations and inspire residents to change their mindset. She is great at helping residents to express themselves and to be as independent as possible. She is an asset to the team.

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Felly Loota-Ebola

Support Worker
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Felly has established an incredibly strong relationship with a resident who shows particularly challenging behaviours. Felly worked consistently with this resident whilst he was in the hospital, never once complaining and allowing for this time to be alot easier for the resident as he had someone there that he likes and trusts to help him.

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Khumbalani Moyo

Support Worker
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Khumbalani recently supported a resident to hospital who hasn’t successfully attended a hospital appointment for many years. Through his comforting techniques and communication he managed to safely and calmly support this gentleman to carry out a successful appointment. Well done Khumbalani thank you for your comforting support.

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Andrew Chikaura

Support Worker
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Andrew ensured that a service user who had in the past refused to visit family was taken there, despite this was late in the day Andrew took him to see his family, that brief moment made a lot of difference in the life of the family. The family who where gathered with other extended members where very grateful.

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Juan Mass

Speciality Dr
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Dr Mass has been dedicated to working with and supporting patients with their physical health. Recently, 81% of the patients at Sherwood House have consented to engage with blood tests. This is a huge increase in comparison to previous months and a direct reflection of Dr Mass hard work and dedication.

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Ajibola Peters

Digital Media Technical Instructor
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We were recently filming a Music 2 Empower video with a patient at Cygnet Bury Hudson and Ajibola came in on his day off to support both the patient and us with the filming. Giving up his free time to do this shows how much it means to Ajibola to showcase the achievements of service users and demonstrates not just flexibility but Passion & Support.

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