Occupational Therapy Assistant

We are currently recruiting for an Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our Occupational Therapy Team at Cygnet Brunel. Are you looking to explore a more rewarding clinical challenge in a Specialist Neuropsychiatric treatment and rehabilitation Service?

**Post**: Occupational Therapy Assistant

**Base**: Cygnet Brunel, 32 bed Specialist Neuropsychiatric Service for Men.

**Responsible for**:The post holder will form part of the Occupational Therapy department on site as well as contributing to the wider MDT team.

**Responsible to**:Occupational Therapist’s within Cygnet Brunel

**Hours**:40 hours per week, with some weekend working

**Location**: Crow lane, Henbury, Bristol, BS10 7DP

With over 150 OTs in the company, we also work together as a large team providing support to each other across the group, with various specialist interest groups to tap into, including Mental Health, Neuropsychiatry, Autism, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Integration, to name a few.

**Overview of site/Ward**:
**Cygnet Brunel** in Bristol offers an extensive Neuropsychiatric treatment, care and rehabilitation pathway which is unique in its ability to provide a dedicated pathway to meet the complex needs of service uses within our care.

**As an Occupational Therapy assistant you will**:

- Under the oversight of an occupational therapist, complete elements of the occupational therapy process, guided by standard operating procedures and protocols. This may include, but is not restricted to: assessment, analysis of results, care planning including prioritising and grading targets and goals; interventions on a group or individual basis both within the hospital and in the wider community, grading and adapting activities to suit individual strengths and needs and aspects of report-writing.
- Support individuals in your care to identify and work towards meeting their personal goals and aspirations through the assessment process and occupational formulation
- Work with a degree of autonomy and as part of a team to manage a designated caseload within your scope of practice.
- Share information effectively and concisely in a range of situations (effective daily documentation; attendance at meetings to handover information; face to face handovers of information to colleagues; report-writing and care planning)
- We care about people in our services
- Career pathway progression within the company to support your development and skills
- National networks of over 150 OTs in the Cygnet Group within different specialisms including Forensic Practice, LD and ASD, Acute mental health, PICU, and inpatient CAMHS
- Low caseload number to support intensive OT focused interventions
- A clear understanding of the importance of enabling people to do the things they want, need or are expected to do to support them being well in life
- Knowledge of the importance of occupation and activity
- Experience of adapting and grading activities and tasks to support independence and confidence, running groups and activities, working with people who have diminished capacity and responsibility for their own actions.
- Evidence of training or education relevant to therapies is desirable
- Effective communication skills, good organisations skills and a positive attitude

**In return we will offer you**:

- Regular supervision from a qualified Occupational Therapist
- Opportunities for in house CPD, in-house training on group delivery and planning, intervention planning and completion, risk assessment completion, Assessment training, SOAP note training, MOHOST and FIMFAM training, MOHO training, as well as regular support and information sharing with other OTA’s in the region.
- Employee Discount Scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Free meals on duty
- DBS paid
- Company pension scheme
- NHS Discount Cards & Blue Light Card
- Free parking

**Requirements**: