Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor

We are seeking a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor. The post holder will be a member of the wider Occupational Therapy (OT) team and will contribute to the provision of occupational therapy services. You will work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to enable service users to reach their recovery potential and develop the skills necessary to manage their mental illness. You will motivate service users and encourage community re-integration by liaising with suitable local resources to promote social inclusion.

OT Technical Instructors support individuals and groups in the Seven Day Therapies Programme, typically working some evenings, bank holidays, a Saturday and a Sunday across four weekends.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Key Task And Responsibilities

• To manage your own workload
• To work independently under the supervision of a registered OT as a member of the MDT
• Use technical, creative and psychosocial skills to assist in providing therapeutic activities for individuals/groups of service users
• To take responsibility for leading on the development of service user projects
• Communicate with service users/carers
• Provide feedback on therapeutic activities to supervisor, OT colleagues and MDT
• Have an awareness of social inclusion and skills development and ensure activities used focus on these objectives
• To undertake additional delegated responsibilities as directed by OT supervisor
  
  

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Felicia Ajayi Job title: Directorate Lead Occupational Therapist Email address: felicia.ajayi@nhs.net Telephone number: 07786750098

OT team office - 01322 297187

Tryphena Bioh - tryphena.bioh1@nhs.net ; 020 3260 5133