Occupational Therapy Assistant

2 months ago

Lincoln, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are currently recruiting for an Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our dedicated team at the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) within the Hartsholme Centre.

The role of the Occupational Therapy Assistant is a multi-faceted role and pivotal in supporting patients during their admission, working together towards discharge and their on-going recovery journey.

**In this role you will**:
Support the Occupational Therapist based on the unit in facilitating meaningful interventions to patients both on and off the unit.
Facilitate/co-facilitate groups or one to one session, that cover the areas of self-care, leisure interests, vocational, domestic or social skills as directed by the Occupational Therapist. Provide interventions that focus on promoting independence and meaningful social engagement, to meet the individual recovery focused needs of patients in this setting. Interventions include community integration. Some lone working will be expected as part of the role.

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities. Our commitment to diversity is evident through our active staff network groups, and we continually strive to provide additional support to our staff.

To provide effective evidence based specialist clinical services for service users referred to the speciality under the direction of qualified clinicians.

To ensure a high standard of care for all patients by effective communication with patients, carers and the referral source.

To work closely with social care colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team, seeking opportunities to promote social integration to the benefit of service users and effective service delivery.

To organise and deliver individual clinical programmes as agreed with supervising clinicians in line with clinical governance and professional standards.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Clinical practice/ work practice
- Deliver therapeutic activity programmes according to defined protocols, to meet defined clinical outcomes
- Understanding of a large range of non-routine work procedures and practices which require base level theoretical knowledge gained through relevant training and experience.
- Assessing and teaching service users under the supervision of a qualified therapist
- To be involved in teaching and providing instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to service user care.
- To contribute to the assessment of a service user’s understanding of treatment proposals, and work within the legal framework with clients who lack capacity to consent.
- To support other staff and students as appropriate
- To respond positively to organisational change and be flexible with work practices depending on need

Health and Safety
- To ensure the safety of service user’s and staff at all times.
- To participate in risk assessments, implement the management plan and participate in the review of risk within the service users’ programme of care.
- To liaise with relevant Trust managers in order to ensure that medical devices and equipment are appropriately managed, maintained and repaired; including staff training (if appropriate)
- To adhere to all Trust Health and Safety policies

Communication and Record Keeping
- To ensure effective communication with service users, carers, members of the multi-disciplinary team and outside agencies
- To represent occupational therapy in a positive manner, attending Trust forums where relevant
- To keep accurate records within the m

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