Occupational Therapy Assistant

4 weeks ago

Leamington Spa, United Kingdom South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Base**: Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join our Occupational Therapy team at Central England Rehabilitation Unit in Leamington Spa, to support qualified staff in delivering rehabilitation interventions to patients with brain injuries.

You will be assisting the OT’s to provide individual and group rehabilitation for patients under the OT’s guidance and supervision. You are expected to have excellent communication skills.

You should be able to multi-task in a busy environment and to be able to manage your workload flexibly to meet the demands of this service. The role also includes administration and data inputting duties. Experience in a healthcare setting is preferred, but not essential.

The service offers structured Personal Development Review (PDR) and Clinical Supervision systems, and actively promotes Continued Professional Development through in-service and other training.

To assist in the provision of an effective service delivery within the speciality.

To provide agreed interventions within the service speciality area under the supervision of an Occupational Therapist.

To follow the recognised professional standards, the agreed therapy pathway and best practice in your designated area of speciality under the supervision of an Occupational Therapist.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

To provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy intervention and assist in maintaining service delivery.

To assist with non-standardised Occupational Therapy under instruction from the Occupational Therapist.

To implement agreed patient centred individual and/or group assessments, interventions, using meaningful graded activity under the instruction of the Occupational Therapist.

To have knowledge of relevant external agencies eligibility criteria.

To have knowledge and be safe and competent in the use of all equipment for daily living, evidenced in the individual Medical Devices Log.

To have knowledge of appropriate legislation and comply with the Professional Code of Ethics, Conduct and Standards for Occupational Therapy.

Measurable Result Areas

To be responsible for the day to day preparation and tidying of designated therapy and office areas maintaining these in a professional manner.

To comply with Health and Safety guidelines, Medical Devices Policy and maintain safe environment, equipment and working practices.

To maintain verbal and non-verbal, written and electronic patient records, reports and activity data contemporaneously and reported back in appropriate forums, in accordance with professional and Trust record keeping standards under the supervision of the Occupational Therapist.

To contribute to the Key Performance Indicator targets and ensure that they are recorded for the designated speciality area in line with the Trust policies and service protocols.

To order equipment for daily living under instruction of the Occupational Therapist, in line with the policies and procedures of the Integrated Community Equipment Service within the authorised budgetary limit.

To identify stock and non-stock in line with the OT service procedures and in line with the Trust financial instructions.

To observe patients and their responses to treatment under the supervisor of line manager.

Communications and Working Relationships

To develop an effective therapeutic relationship through the use of a good range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills.

To contribute to and support the Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Placements.

To assist and support opportunities for teaching and training of staff, other students for example medical, nursing, work experience and other professionals.

To assist in the induction of all new Occupational Therapy staff and students.

To notify the Principal Occupational Therapist of staff absences when senior staff are not available.

To respect the equality, dignity and diversity of the individual, and be responsible for the pro

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