Occupational Therapy Assistant

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

As an OT assistant, you will be working alongside an experienced team of OT colleagues to provide a range of interventions within the community. You will have the opportunity to take on your own caseload of service users. There are also exciting opportunities to explore the OT apprenticeship pathway in keeping with continued professional development goals.

This role will also involve communicating closely with MDT colleagues, families and carers, secondary and voluntary sector agencies to encourage a meaningful routine and support service users to manage their health and wellbeing.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The main duties of this role include;
- Completing initial assessments with service users and developing OT intervention plans with support from OT team
- Managing a caseload of service users
- Liaising with service users, carers, MDT, other healthcare teams and voluntary/charitable agencies on behalf of the service user and to create community links
- Identify and provide necessary equipment for the service users
- Attending in service training and other relevant clinical meetings
- Contributing to continued service and professional development

Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 1500 AHP’s in CNWL. We work in many different teams in physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your skills.

CNWL is very fortunate to have a professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession and therapies as a whole at all levels.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession this enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our AHP’s reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and evidence-based practice is made possible by our strong links with local universities and our CNWL AHP Research Network.

As part of this role, you will need to;
- Provide culturally competent practice in all interactions with patients and in the preparation and design of all clinical intervention
- Engage in regular reflection regarding equality, diversity and inclusion issues related to clinical practice and attend culturally diverse CPD opportunities
- During appraisal engage in reflection about equality, diversity and inclusion issues relevant to clinical practice, the profession or the team.
- Be part of a supportive staff culture of inclusion; recognising the needs and backgrounds of colleagues and playing their part in positively embracing difference within the team
- Support students as when required with support from the OT
- Participate in 7 day work

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