Occupational Therapy Assistant

1 month ago

Lincoln, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Would you like to explore a rewarding career experience as an Occupational Therapy Assistant?

An opportunity has arisen to join the Occupational Therapy Team at Francis Willis Unit a low secure hospital for males.

You will be part of a team working with patients to support them towards community living.

The role is full time and hours are flexible to meet the needs of the service and patients

Working under the supervision of the Occupational Therapist

Planning and delivering group and individual sessions to support life skills, social skills, education and training.

Escorting patients in the community to support reintegration.

Co-producing individual therapeutic timetables to support patients to meet their identified goals.

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.

Clinical practice/ work practice
- Deliver therapeutic activity programmes according to defined protocols, to meet defined clinical outcomes
- Understanding of a large range of non-routine work procedures and practices which require base level theoretical knowledge gained through relevant training and experience.
- Assessing and teaching service users under the supervision of a qualified therapist
- To be involved in teaching and providing instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to service user care.
- To contribute to the assessment of a service user’s understanding of treatment proposals, and work within the legal framework with clients who lack capacity to consent.
- To support other staff and students as appropriate
- To respond positively to organisational change and be flexible with work practices depending on need

Health and Safety
- To ensure the safety of service user’s and staff at all times.
- To participate in risk assessments, implement the management plan and participate in the review of risk within the service users’ programme of care.
- To liaise with relevant Trust managers in order to ensure that medical devices and equipment are appropriately managed, maintained and repaired; including staff training (if appropriate)
- To adhere to all Trust Health and Safety policies

Communication and Record Keeping
- To ensure effective communication with service users, carers, members of the multi-disciplinary team and outside agencies
- To represent occupational therapy in a positive manner, attending Trust forums where relevant
- To keep accurate records within the multi-disciplinary notes and to maintain appropriate statistical returns, including computerised data.

Education and Development
- To participate in regular planned, and where necessary, unplanned support/supervision from the supervisor.
- To participate in the Performance Appraisal and Development process and ensure that personal development needs are met in conjunction with the supervisor and team managers.
- To undertake essential training as relevant to the role and attend relevant professional/educational forums as required.
- To contribute to the clinical support of students on placement.
- To maintain a professional portfolio to evidence personal development.
- Contribute to the education of colleagues, carers and staff from other agencies to facilitate care packages for service users

Policies and Procedures
- The duties and responsibilities of the post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practices of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and the professional standards of the College of Occupational Therapists.

Evidence based practice
- To contribute towards developing an

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