Job summary
To contribute to the delivery of interventions and support activities to enable recovery inservice users accessing the Community Team. The post holder will provide a range ofclinical interventions to service users and their carers. The Community Team is amultidisciplinary team providing interventions to adults with a wide range of mental healthneeds the service aims to promote recovery and increased role will involve, both group and individual work with clients in their local communities,placing strong emphasis on skills development and social inclusion. The role will also includeopportunity to facilitate new group activitiesTo work under the direction and supervision of qualified Occupational Therapy staff.
Main duties of the job
To assist the support and recovery of service users within the CommunityTeam in order to provide a range of psychosocial interventions with service users which aim to improve a person's mental health in three main areas of self-care, productivity and leisure and also reduce their emotional distress.- The Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner will work within defined competencies and without direct supervision to provide a flexible range of therapeutic activities for Adults within their own homes, trust community settings, and local community- Undertaking individual therapeutic activities with clients to promoteindependence and wellbeing, sometimes requiring tact and persuasion orwhere there may be barriers to understanding. Assessing client's responses to activities and amending programmes of activity where necessary, making judgements on when to escalate clinical issues to the Occupational Therapist.- To work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members/service provider in the provision of supporting the service user. To effectively communicate and highlight any clinical risks and report this to the multidisciplinary team in a proficient and timely fashion and if necessary contribute to ongoing risk reduction and management.
About us
Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values
Job description
Job responsibilities
To gather information from the service user/carer as part of the care planprocess and activities identified within it, communicating effectively withJob description Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitionerclients where there are barriers to understanding and where clients are highlyemotive or distresses and often presenting challenging behaviour. To ensure all written and electronic work is accurate and kept up to date notes and contacts on Rio, in accordance with professional and Truststandards. To effectively use clinical supervision to discuss and reflect on own practice. To maintain and demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of national guidelines,standards, legislation and professional developments in current methods inthe treatment of service conditions. To ensure all Trust policies and procedures are implemented and adhered towithin area of practice and making suggestions for changes to workingpractices within the Community teams. To participate in own Personal Development Conversation by completingpreparation documentation and actively participating in the appraisal process. To actively engage in and maintain the organisations standards of clinicalgovernance including participation in audits, clinical supervision and researchinto clinical practice. Undertake relevant activities to meet training objectives and maintain up todate mandatory training. To undertake own continual professional development by demonstrating anongoing reflective learning style in the workplace. This should be clearly andregularly documented in a personal portfolio.
Person Specification
Shortlisting
Essential
1. Relevant experience
Desirable
2. 2 years of experience