Occupational Therapy Assistant - Frimley, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking team member to join our Occupational Therapy Department as an Occupational Therapy Assistant.
Our department, based at Frimley Park Hospital, works across a range of specialities which include: elderly medicine, Acute Medicine, A&E, Stroke, Orthopaedics, Surgery.
As a Band 2 assistant experience working with occupational therapy is not essential, but applicants must have good people skills and have had experience of caring for another person (personally or professionally).
The post holders would support qualified Occupational Therapists in the assessment and rehabilitation of wide variety of patients. In addition there are also clerical and housekeeping duties in the role.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
- Work under the guidance of qualified OTs in providing functional treatment for patients experiencing physical and cognitive deficits;
- Support qualified therapists during home assessments in the community;
- Communicate relevant information on patients' conditions and performance;
- Communicate effectively with other disciplines both internally and externally;
- Take responsibility for training and supervising new OT Assistants and Students;
- Cooperate with other department staff in the efficient management of department stocks and equipment levels
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