Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We are delighted to offer an enthusiastic, self motivated team player to join our team as an Occupational Therapist assistant within the Directorate of Mental Health based at Stewart House in Narborough, 30 hours per week. This OT service has a Monday to Friday working pattern.

Stewart House is a 30 bedded mixed gender adult Inpatient Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit that supports patients who have severe and enduring mental illness.

As a Band 3 Occupational Therapy assistant you will work within an MDT team with B6 and Band 5 Occupational Therapists and other OTAs to provide ongoing Occupational Therapy interventions and assessments to address patient needs in Functional, Psycho-social, Cognitive, Sensory and Physical Health areas.

Working together as a team ensures we deliver high quality therapeutic care to patients who have experienced deterioration in their mental health and require longer term mental health rehabilitation. Using assessments eg, MOHOST, ACDM, we provide a range of occupational focused therapeutic interventions to support the patient journey of recovery from admission through to discharge.

You will be able to demonstrate existing skills or convey your willingness to build on transferrable experience and skills when interacting with patients to support their recovery journey. Patients are fully involved in identifying their goals and contribute to their planned care, identify barriers to engage which helps the service to understand what is needed to promote individual recovery. Part of the care includes structured activities which focus on patients’ interests and strengths building confidence and motivation.

You will be able to demonstrate risk awareness and follow the risk assessments for each activity that are in place or identify emerging risks if appropriate.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support which will enable you to achieve your goals and work to your strengths.

We Also Offer

A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days

Free onsite parking

Access to a wide range of additional benefits such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance

Health and Wellbeing Support

Contact Details

Kathryn Morris, Occupational Therapy Team Lead, MHSOP Inpatient Service and Stewart House rehabilitation unit. mobile :07769 642294.

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 out in 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 including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

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.

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

• This position forms part of the Occupational therapy service to our patients.
• You will have strong engagement and motivational skills and be flexible in working with patients with complex mental health needs during their recovery pathway.
• You will be part of a team supporting the patient journey of recovery from inpatient to community settings following a pathways model to meet individual's goals
• & identify ongoing needs and as such will be able to demonstrate experience of a strong team working ethic.
• You must be good at building rapport, therapeutic relationships and working closely with others to support patient recovery journey.

To contribute to the Occupational Therapy service within a Multi-Disciplinary format that provides specialist assessment and treatment in clinical care pathways.

Effective written and verbal communication skills are essential when being an integral part of the MDT, informing recovery progress and providing information and feedback to the qualified OTs who are responsible to compile comprehensive OT assessments.

The role entails working within a specialist therapy team to provide the Service and deliver high standards of practice.