Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job summary

Would you like to explore a rewarding career experience as an Occupational Therapy Assistant?

We are currently recruiting for an Occupational Therapy Assistant to join our Therapy Team at Discovery House to support effective evidence-based specialist clinical services for both male and female service users from the age of 18+.

As an OT Assistant you will work closely and be offered monthly supervision from the Occupational Therapists. As part of this, you will be allocated a range of time-specific 1:1 interventions based on the individual's care needs, including support to build confidence in public transport and develop basic cookery skills. Alongside this, you will be expected to work along a range of internal and external services to offer a range of group activities, both on the ward, at the main activity hub and in the community.

In-house training will be offered. This includes basic mandatory training required for the role. However, there is also information around the Model of Human Occupation, which is the framework that guides our interventions and other areas such as the use of sensory integration.

We actively encourage people to arrange a visit and chat with the team prior to deciding to apply. If you have any questions, please call reception on 01522 597962 and ask to be forwarded to our Band 6 Occupational Therapist Ola Oshin-Ayoola

Main duties of the job

The Occupational Therapy Assistant role involves planning and implementing therapeutic activities appropriate to the needs, choices and interests of individuals in our care, under the supervision and guidance of a qualified Occupational Therapist within an acute inpatient mental health environment.

The Occupational Therapy Assistant will also be working with the in-house MDT which is designed to support the individual in our care throughout their journey with us.

You will be required to complete RRP training

Able to drive a manual car would be preferable

About us

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.