Beth Salt

When did you start working for Gray Healthcare?

August 2018

Your role:

Beth is a qualified Occupational Therapist and is our Head of Rehabilitation.  She has full responsibility both for developing clinical outcomes to enable us to monitor the progress the individuals we support make whilst in our care and, for planning and implementing improvements to our service delivery.

Beth has a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy from Wrexham Glyndwr University.  She is also a qualified PROACT-SCIPr-UK® Instructor and is currently undertaking a Postgraduate (PG)Certificate in Sensory Integration.

Before joining Gray Healthcare:

Beth began dancing at the age of five. When she left school she moved to Liverpool, where she completed a Dance Studies degree specialising in contemporary dance, jazz and ballet at John Moores University.   On leaving university, she started to teach dance on a freelance basis and as a result of this joined a theatre company that worked in a nearby private school.  This theatre company held regular outreach sessions for adults with learning disabilities in a local day centre and it was this experience that prompted Beth to consider a career change.  She initially considered retraining in dance therapy but the only available courses were in London. At the same time, her mother, a head teacher in a primary school, suggested occupational therapy as an alternative option.  Beth found a part-time Occupational Therapy course in Wrexham which would enable her to continue working whilst doing her studies.  During her first year, she worked as a cleaner in a nightclub and also as a Support Worker to a gentleman living in his own home.  She continued her support worker role throughout her degree. Post qualification her first role as a Occupational Therapist was within a 22-bed open rehabilitation hospital in North Wales for adults with mental health conditions, learning disabilities and acquired brain injuries.  After a few years in this role, she began to look for opportunities where the focus of care was more person-centred and where she could be part of the journey helping people make the transition successfully from hospital into the community.

What do you like about working at Gray Healthcare?

‘ I like the ability to learn and affect change and be creative with the things we do professionally as lots of other places I’ve worked have been linear – this is how we’ve always done it here – as professionals we have the ability to break the mould and be creative in our work.’

Gray Healthcare in three words:

‘Kind ,creative and responsive’