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Occupational Therapy Assistant

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Job summary

Are you interested in a career where you can have a positive impact on service users journey? Where supporting engagement in meaningful activities enhances health & well being? A career that is rewarding? Are you interested in Occupational Therapy?

Main duties of the job

As an Occupational Therapy Assistant your role will require you to work with patients using evidence-based and patient-centred principles to provide patients with the confidence, skills and coping strategies required to maximise their independence in activities of daily living.

Under the supervision and guidance of a registered Occupational Therapist, the post holder will be expected to assist in the delivery of therapeutic interventions within the service.

About us

Here at Burgess Hill our aim is to help patients to live a happier, more independent life.

Burgess Hill is a purpose-built hospital set in attractive spacious grounds, in a rural setting within easy reach of the A23 and local amenities.

At Burgess Hill we offer a specialist service in providing care for people with mental illnesses, split across three wards: a male acute service, a male PICU, and a female low secure unit.

New members of our team have an exceptional opportunity to help shape the future of our services and a genuine chance to be part of transforming them. With a renewed focus on quality and excellence at its heart the service aims to grow and extend its current offering. This is your chance to play an influential part in developing and improving the current services and to make a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people in our care.

Details

Date posted

04 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£20,325 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0358-OTA-Burgess

Job locations

The Priory Hospital Burgess Hill

Gatehouse Lane

Goddards Green

Hassocks

West Sussex

BN6 9LE


Job description

Job responsibilities

Your role will involve creatively engaging service users & ability to adapt activities for the individuals to enhance service user experience, being compassionate to service user needs, flexibility & resilience for working with service users presenting with varying degrees of mental health difficulties. Good communication skills are required both verbal and written computer skills for maintaining clinical records of service user engagement. Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously.

Activities and interventions may include: supporting service users with cooking a meal, using a washing machine, reading a bus timetable, exploring leisure activities art and craft sessions/music/ gardening, sports and fitness, social activities, promoting independent leisure skills, supporting service users to attend vocational and work opportunity roles.

Priory offers opportunity to engage in training & CPD and to develop your career pathway Priory supports Occupational Therapy Apprenticeships.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Your role will involve creatively engaging service users & ability to adapt activities for the individuals to enhance service user experience, being compassionate to service user needs, flexibility & resilience for working with service users presenting with varying degrees of mental health difficulties. Good communication skills are required both verbal and written computer skills for maintaining clinical records of service user engagement. Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously.

Activities and interventions may include: supporting service users with cooking a meal, using a washing machine, reading a bus timetable, exploring leisure activities art and craft sessions/music/ gardening, sports and fitness, social activities, promoting independent leisure skills, supporting service users to attend vocational and work opportunity roles.

Priory offers opportunity to engage in training & CPD and to develop your career pathway Priory supports Occupational Therapy Apprenticeships.

Person Specification

Experience

Desirable

  • Experience in a healthcare setting desirable for role.
Person Specification

Experience

Desirable

  • Experience in a healthcare setting desirable for role.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Priory Healthcare

Address

The Priory Hospital Burgess Hill

Gatehouse Lane

Goddards Green

Hassocks

West Sussex

BN6 9LE


Employer's website

https://jobs.priorygroup.com/why-join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Priory Healthcare

Address

The Priory Hospital Burgess Hill

Gatehouse Lane

Goddards Green

Hassocks

West Sussex

BN6 9LE


Employer's website

https://jobs.priorygroup.com/why-join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Co-ordinator

Evangelos Papadakis

EvangelosPapadakis@priorygroup.com

01444231000

Details

Date posted

04 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£20,325 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0358-OTA-Burgess

Job locations

The Priory Hospital Burgess Hill

Gatehouse Lane

Goddards Green

Hassocks

West Sussex

BN6 9LE


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