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Occupational Therapy Assistant Community Enhanced Rehab Team, Leicester
Client: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Location: Leicester
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: b92166a02421
Job Views: 4
Posted: 16.02.2025
Expiry Date: 02.04.2025
Job Description:
Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking and experienced occupational therapy assistant to join the Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team (CERT). CERT is an established community rehab team within the enhanced rehabilitation and recovery pathway. Comprising a multi-disciplinary team, CERT provides transitional support and mental health rehabilitation focused interventions in the community for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
We have a new vacancy for an experienced and confident Band 3 Mental Health Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our friendly and supportive team. Experience of working with adults with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) is essential, and autonomous community working is highly desirable.
You will work within an MDT team alongside B6 Occupational Therapists and 2 other Band 3 Occupational Therapy Assistants, CPNs, psychologists, support workers, psychiatrists, and a social worker to provide ongoing appropriate Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions to our patients using approaches of functional, psycho-social, cognitive, sensory, and physical health.
We work within a recovery approach, undertaking collaborative interventions with service users, families, and wider networks within the community. CERT offers service users and carers a greater choice over their care and recovery, ensuring interventions are delivered in the least restrictive setting.
Effective written and verbal communication skills are essential as you will be an integral part of the MDT, informing recovery progress and providing comprehensive OT assessments as required.
You will have access to monthly supervision from a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, plus regular peer supervision, and be encouraged to develop and enhance your skills through in-service training.
Please note this is a county-wide service, and it is essential that you have access to a vehicle during working hours.
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
The successful candidate will support the Occupational Therapy team to provide specialist Occupational Therapy services to people in the community on the Mental Health Rehabilitation pathway. The post holder will work with the MDT to facilitate optimum occupational wellbeing. You will be able to demonstrate skills, knowledge, and risk awareness relevant to Occupational Therapy and have experience of working with adults with mental health issues (SMI). Access to your own transport throughout the working week is required as this is a county-wide team. Community experience with this service user group is highly desirable.
The post holder will contribute to the delivery and development of the Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team pathway.
Possessing additional knowledge such as Sensory Integration/Processing, Challenging Behaviour/PSB, ASD, Dual diagnosis, and Complex Physical Health needs is advantageous.
You will work in partnership with other members of the Multidisciplinary team in the delivery of Occupational Therapy interventions in the mental health clinical care pathway, demonstrating awareness and knowledge of risk assessment and safeguarding policies. You are required to complete MAPPA training to ensure safe practice when working alone.
We may close the advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health, and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours, and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants; please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
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