Occupational Therapy Assistant

Are you highly motivated, creative and innovative? Would you like to explore a rewarding career experience as an Occupational Therapy Assistant?

We are currently looking for someone to step into the role as an Occupational Therapy Assistant with our inpatient acute therapies team at the Peter Hodgkinson Centre in Lincoln. The role is predominantly based on Castle Ward, which provides assessment and treatment for female adults of working age who are acutely unwell, as part of inpatient mental health services provision. The role also provides the opportunity to work with other members of the acute therapies team to provide inter- ward groups and interventions. As a valued team member, you will work with service users, the wider therapies and multidisciplinary team as part of your role to support individuals with acute mental health needs.

Your compassionate and collaborative approach will play a key part in people's recovery, assisting qualified staff with the assessment and implementation of individual patient occupational therapy interventions through a mixture of groups and 1:1 working, undertaking things such as art, cooking, sensory work and gardening in a safe and person centred way.

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Main duties of the job

The Occupational Therapy Assistant role involves planning and implementing therapeutic activities appropriate to the needs, choices and interests of individuals in our care, under the supervision and guidance of a qualified Occupational Therapist within an acute inpatient mental health environment.

The Occupational Therapy Assistant will also be working with the in-house MDT which is designed to support the individual in our care throughout their journey with us.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ 3 in Health (or similar) in or willingness to work towards it

Desirable

• Evidence of training applicable to health/social care
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Experience

Essential

• Have a good understanding of mental health and related issues

Desirable

• Experience of working in a healthcare environment
• Experience of domestic and occupational activities

Skills & Competences

Desirable

• Basic IT skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to create a motivating/stimulating environment through activity.
• Ability to work under supervision

About the employer

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.