Occupational Therapy Assistant - London, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals

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3 weeks ago

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Description

Job Title:
Occupational Therapy Assistant

Band:3 / 4

Trust:
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Location:
River House

Ward/Dept:
Occupational Therapy TeaM/Forensic Offender health pathway

Hours: 37.5Hrs / 9am-5pm / Monday-Friday (Some evening and weekend work available on top of the day programme)

Introduction to the Role:

The team is looking for a passionate OT Technician with a creative background who will help in running the day-to-day operation of the café.

In this role, you will contribute to the development of and provision of occupationally focused interventions within River House under the supervision of a qualified Occupational Therapist.

You will be working collaboratively with service users and their families and carers to ensure practice is person centred and recovery focused.

In this role, you will be helping with the café operation in terms of vocation and employability.

While as a Band 4 it would be an essential requirement to have Adult Mental Health experience, it is only desirable within a Band 3 OTA.

So, if you are passionate and experienced in providing support to patients and would like to be part of a highly qualified Therapy team delivering support to patients in an inpatient setting then we would like to hear from you today

Introduction to the Trust, Ward & Team:
The South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive, complex mental health services both locally and nationally. The Trust has approximately 4,000 staff and a budget in excess of £330 million.

It is part of King's Health Partners, the Academic Health Sciences Centre, (AHSC) we have established with King's College London, King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trusts.

The occupational therapy and associated Allied Health Professions workforce consists of approximately 200 staff based in all the Trust directorates.

At River house you will be widely supported, working as part of an MDT with around 20 staff members.

This large team will work to deliver OT Interventions in a forensic inpatient setting in which you will be led by qualified Occupational Therapists.

The Occupational Therapy programme will cover various areas:

Vocational Employability
Eating disorders
Physical Health
Mental Wellbeing
Motivation
Creative Arts
Sensory interventions in recovery college

Responsibilities

Band 3:

To work effectively as a member of a team in providing a programme of ward, department or community based therapeutic activities.
To use technical / creative skills to engage clients in therapeutic activities to promote and maintain independence and wellbeing.
Under the clinical / professional supervision of an OT, facilitate and participate in planned groupwork and individual activities, ongoing continuous assessment and adjustment of own clinical interventions based on the changing needs of the service users.
Contribute to formal OT assessments, under guidance of an OT and provide feedback on service users' occupational functioning.
Assist in the implementation, evaluation and modification of OT and team interventions.
Under the clinical / professional supervision of an OT, provide a range of activities, instructing and guiding clients to support them in achieving identified goals.

Band 4:

To work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary team by contributing to a programme of therapeutic activities that support a person centred and recovery focused approach to an individual's care and treatment during admission.
To provide individual occupational interventions detailed within an occupationally focused and/or activitybased care plan using specialist technical and engagement skills under the supervision of a qualified Occupational Therapist.
To inform and assist with the development of occupationally focused and/or activitybased care plans.
To independently facilitate leisure focused and socially based group interventions.
To cofacilitate additional group interventions alongside a qualified Occupational Therapist and other members of the multidisciplinary team in line with service need.
To contribute to formal occupationally focused assessments led by the qualified Occupational Therapists through the use of specialist skills to gather data via discussion and observation and provide feedback on these.
To be aware of risk management principles including the ability to safely manage the environment during clinical activity, managing risks identified within an individual's risk assessment, abide by relevant policy, and protocol and recognise the need for assessment of mental state and associated risk.

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