Occupational Therapy Assistant

**Role: Occupational Therapy Assistant**:
**Location**: Ditchingham, Suffolk

**Hours**: 40 Hours Per Week (Full Time)

**Salary**: £12.07 per hour

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic personal to join our Multi-Disciplinary team to deliver a person-centred therapy service to adults with acquired brain injury and cerebrovascular accident. We are seeking a dynamic Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our developing team of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Psychology and Nurses at All Hallows, Suffolk. All Hallows is part of the Oakleaf Group, a leading provider of specialist brain injury inpatient rehabilitation services.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Experience working within a care setting
- Ideally, you will have a background or experience of delivering or support activities (such as sports, crafts or domestic tasks).
- Possess ability to engage, teach, and instruct service users in an agreed specialist area.
- Understand the benefits of engaging patients in meaningful activities, and be able to articulate this to patients
- Ability to work as part of a team and good interpersonal skills.
- Computer literate with good written and oral communication skills

**Responsibilities**:

- Planning, carrying out and evaluation of therapy programmes, running sessions and the allocation/organisation of staff to ensure the successful implementation of the day to day programme.
- Delivering group sessions, so applicants must possess the confidence to manage and carry these out successfully.
- Liaise with nursing staff/unit management to highlight any possible therapy needs and ensure this information is relayed to the unit therapy team and the unit Manager.
- Responsible for involvement within therapeutic personal morning hygiene routines working towards maximising functional independence.

**Who we are**:
All Hallows Specialist Neurological Rehabilitation Centre supports men and women with complex healthcare needs having experienced a brain injury, stroke or other neurological event. The services provided at All Hallows comprise: Active / Complex Rehabilitation, High Dependency & Specialist Nursing Care, Progressive Neurological Conditions and Community Rehabilitation.

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