Occupational Therapy Assistant

4 days ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

The Forensic Mental Health services specialise in the assessment and treatment of offenders with mental health conditions. The medium secure inpatient service provides 66 inpatient beds for men and women.

We are keen to recruit two enthusiastic, experienced Occupational Therapy Assistants to join the Occupational Therapy service. Occupational Therapy staff are recognised as essential, core members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Both posts will involve the planning and facilitating of group and individual therapeutic activities. One post will mainly be working with patients in our café, the other will be mainly working at our horticulture and pet care project. Both posts will have the opportunity for working on the wards.

The role in the cafe will involve supporting patients to develop skills in all aspects of customer service including preparing and serving food and drinks, cleaning and stock control.

The role in the horticulture and pet care project

Both roles will involve offering group and individual therapeutic activities on the wards. Ward activities will be varied depending on patient interests and needs. These may include:

- Creative activities e.g. art, craft
- Exercise opportunities e.g. football, walking, badminton, swimming, cycling
- Cooking to develop skills and support healthy eating e.g. planning and preparing meals, food shopping
- Other lifestyle interventions e.g. relaxation, mindfulness, sleep hygiene, having a balanced daily routine
- Assorted activities to support leisure and social needs
- Support to the pet care and horticulture project

You will need to be skilled at motivating patients to engage, have excellent communication skills and be able to keep accurate clinical records.

Experience of working in mental health is essential.

Both posts will require weekday and weekend working.

Support and supervision will be provided as well as opportunities to engage in further development and training.

You will be part of a team of experienced Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants. You will work alongside other healthcare professionals ensuring high quality assessment and treatment is offered to patients.

**JOB PURPOSE**:
Under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist and in consultation with professionally registered members of the Multidisciplinary Team the post holder will be expected toassist in the delivery of therapeutic interventions within the service by
- Using skills and experience to plan and provide flexible, service user centred, 1:1 or group activity based interventions that contribute to meeting the assessed needs of service users and treatment service as outlined within their care plan.
- Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to facilitate therapeutic interventions for service users and carers
- Undertaking clinically related administration, and to assist with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of a service, to service users and their carers, guided by an appropriate senior colleague.

**KEY RESULT AREAS**:

- To work effectively as a member of the MDT assisting in delivering individual or group interventions to promote the strengths, wellbeing and recovery of service users and carers.
- To monitor service users’ progress, reporting on their psychological, physical, behavioural, occupational and social response to interventions.
- To adapt interventions ensuring that they support the service user and carer to meet their needs, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences, adjusting own approach accordingly.
- To assist with or contribute to the assessment of activities of daily living, maintaining service users’ dignity and privacy, observing changes both positive and negative and reporting appropriately.
- To effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
- To contribute to and comply with individual, environmental and activity-related risk assessments and to communicate issues around risk to others involved in service users care.
- To support and undertake community access /engagement for service users and carers.
- To assist with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of a service guided by an appropriate senior colleague.
- To attend and actively participate in relevant clinical meetings/forums.

**RESPONSIBILITY**:

- Working with service users and their carers referred to the service.
- To undertake and assist in the delivery of therapeutic interventions for service users
- To ensure that the Trust’s values are upheld in Occupational Therapy practice
- To support the implementation of the current and future Allied Health Professions (AHP) strategy
- To travel between locations in a timely manner
- To be aware of own and others health, safety and security at all times.
- To contribute to the induction, training and education of students and staff.
- In line with Trust policy and guidelines, review and reflect on own practice and

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