Occupational Therapist Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Practice Plus Group
Description
About The Role:
UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE
Make a difference to every life
Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work.
If you're looking for a role where you can develop your existing nursing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the opportunity for you.
As the Occupational Therapy Assistant, you will support the provision of occupational therapy regarding assessment, treatment and evaluation with the aim to improve patients' quality of life, support them with their activities of daily living and enhance problem solving.
You will work within a Trauma Informed Care approach and will develop bespoke plans to patients with different levels of sensory, communication and emotional needs to avoid re-traumatization within the prison environment.
In this role, you will support the provision of occupational therapy through assessment, treatment and evaluation.
Working under the supervision and guidance of the Occupational Therapist you will provide accurate verbal and written reports as necessary, establish good communication with colleagues in the healthcare team, prison and external agencies.
What you'll be doing:
You will have an NVQ L2 in care or equivalent and experience of working therapeutically within adult mental health forensic setting
Interested in clinical development?
We have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career, which include both internal and external options for development and learning and access to our apprenticeship schemes.
How will we support you?
- Bespoke induction
- Competency framework
- Regional and national career development opportunities
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider team
It doesn't stop therewe also offer:
- Company pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus public bank holidays
- An extensive range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
- Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
- Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
- Excellent longterm career prospects
- 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it
What we'll look for in you:
HM Prison Thameside is a local category B resettlement prison in the Thamesmead area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, South-East London and is situated next to HMP Belmarsh.
HMP Thameside is London's only private prison and can currently hold 1232 convicted and remand male prisoners.
The dedicated team in the Health in Justice division of Practice Plus Group make a real difference across over 45 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres.
We're the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 people in these secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their history.
Access to Excellence. Our core values are;
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together
Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we're at work.
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