Occupational Therapy Assistant

Description:

Are you ready to develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of the Occupational Therapy profession within this role as an Occupational Therapy Assistant? This role offers an opportunity to assist the Occupational Therapists to deliver therapy and recovery focused assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for male service users detained under the Mental Health Act. The aim is to effectively progress service users though the secure care pathway, into the least restrictive environment possible, while working to reduce the possibility of readmission back into secure care.

Each ward has access to their own Occupational Therapy resources including an OT kitchen and an Activity Room in addition there are other shared resources including a hospital gym and our Recovery College.

You will be responsible for providing direct clinical interventions under the direction of an experienced qualified Occupational Therapist. In this role you will be supervised to assess, implement and develop an Occupational Therapy treatment programme to meet the patients’ needs, to support them with their recovery. This requires working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team. You will carry a clinical caseload over 2 wards. In house and external training is provided (as required) to support you to develop your professional skills within the Occupational therapy profession.