Technical Instructor

3 months ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Wedgwood House have an exiting opportunity for the role of a Occupational Therapy Assistant. This is a role which service users consistently identify as having a positive impact upon their recovery and their experiences in mental health inpatient services

This post is specifically to assist the Occupational Therapists in assessment and delivery of OT interventions to our patients in the older persons mental health assessment and treatment ward. Relevant experience will be required with a flair for working intuitively within the Occupational Therapy ethos, with the ultimate aim of assisting our patients to maintain skills so that a smooth transition to returning home can occur.

You will be required to work with teams across Wedgwood to support service users in undertaking physical activity. We have a gym and areas to facilitate activities.

You will also facilitate time away from the unit with identified individuals in order to access community resources and engage with nature.

A relevant qualification in Occupational Assistant therapies or a foundation degree is essential for this post.

As a unit we pride ourselves on working together to deliver high quality care and to support each other through any challenging times.

We recognise that working with the same methods doesn’t work forever; and we will continue to challenge the way we do things to create the best services we can, centred on the people who use them.

We are focused on Quality Improvement led care delivery and are looking for energetic people who want to make a difference and be part of dynamic teams who like to think outside of the box.

**Benefits**:
**Benefits included with this role are**:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

We value life skills, lived experience and a commitment to work with us to meet the needs of the ward. We are keen to integrate individuals existing skills into the services we are able to provide, as well as supporting personal and professional development through additional training.


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