Occupational Assistant

3 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you passionate about working with adults with an IDD?

Then we want to hear from you

We are looking to appoint a full time Occupational Therapy Assistant within our therapy team based on the Orion Unit at Highbury Hospital.

Your role will be to work with patients within an inpatient setting. You will supervise, instruct, and support patients in activities relating to their treatment programmes both within the unit and the community.

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Occupational Therapy Assistant to work within the Inpatient Assessment & Treatment Team, based at the Orion Unit at Highbury Hospital, Bulwell, Nottingham.

The Orion Unit is an 8 bedded inpatient service for adults with an intellectual disability and complex mental health needs and / or challenging behaviours that cannot be met within the community. We offer specialist support tailored to the individual. Working flexibly, utilising a broad range of models and interventions; within a Multi-Disciplinary Team. The Unit supports people in times of crisis, difficulty, and distress; effectively collaborating between professionals, the person, family/carers and networks that support them. We work alongside our community colleagues and receiving services.

We are seeking a proactive, compassionate, caring and recovery focused Occupational Therapy Assistant with excellent communication skills to join our existing dynamic multidisciplinary IDD Team. The post
- holder will work alongside our experienced Occupational Therapist to offer interventions that promote recovery, enabling patients to live their best life.

In return, we offer you a supporting network of colleagues, opportunities for career development, access to high quality supervision, and an employer who is supportive of your own physical and mental wellbeing.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

TeamNottsHC

Orion Unit, Highbury Hospital, Nottingham, NG6 9DR

Permanent Contract 1 x Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Are you an Occupational Therapy Assistant who is looking to work with patients with IDD?

Are you looking for a new opportunity to work in a team that will help develop you to achieve your goals to become the best you can be?

Would you like a role where no two days are the same, with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated, but also a good amount of routine?

If so, then the Orion Unit at Highbury Hospital Intellectual Disabilities Service is the place to begin or continue your career.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our established assessment and treatment team. This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapy Assistant who has an interest in working within an Intellectual Disability inpatient setting.

You will contribute to the provision of 1:1 and group therapy sessions under the direction of the Occupational Therapist and the occupational therapy professional lead.

You will work as part of a team to plan and deliver meaningful engagement, coordinating vocational, leisure and domestic activities for adults with intellectual disabilities experiencing mental ill health in an inpatient setting.

Your role will be an integral part of an MDT team contributing to, the assessment and treatment of individual and groups of patients.

This post is situated within the Specialist Services Directorate and located in an assessment and treatment inpatient setting. The post holder will work with patients with intellectual disabilities who are at risk to themselves and/or others and require treatment in a secure



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