Job summary
We are delighted that we are able to offer a fixed term contract / secondment into our well-established Pathway for adults with a learning disability.
We are looking for a dynamic and capable Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our established community learning disability team.
Occupational Therapy is a core role in our teams working alongside other disciplines. You should be confident in supporting our registered OT when delivering recovery focused interventions across all occupational domains with both individuals and groups.
Main duties of the job
OT has a core role that requires dedication from the whole team to deliver shared pathways to service users which helps them to become more independent and live in the least restrictive environment.
The Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner will support the OT team leader to manage, assess, plan and implement interventions for a caseload of complex service users with a diagnosed learning disability, addressing occupational performance and skills deficits to meet service user's needs. The community core offer is wide and offers variety to the role, including assessments and treatment formulation is: Sensory Integration, Falls, equipment provision to enhance ADL, promoting independence in skills, postural care and seating for function, supporting good mental wellbeing and promoting good routines and occupational balance.
About us
The Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust providing a range of services to people across Sandwell, Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Our vision is to improve health and well-being for people of all ages across the Black Country.
We provide first-rate care to our patients and have been rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in a recent inspection. Our clinical sites are among some of the most forward-thinking in the country, where teams ensure we are consistently offering patients respect and dignity, high quality care and a positive experience. Our community teams provide outstanding generic and specialist care closer to home, proactively supporting patients away from a hospital setting.
This role will be diverse and exciting, the needs of the service mean that the post holder must be able to work flexibly with other community teams to provide OT across the Black Country.
The role offers a wide variety of opportunities to develop and extend your skills. We offer a commitment to support staff, regular supervision and CPD from our band 7 advanced practitioner Occupational Therapist.
We offer the opportunity to develop skills utilising training and work shadowing and offer extensive support, utilising reflective practice groups, peer and individual supervision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Occupational Therapy Team will provide a full range of assessments, interventions, support, training and advice to individuals themselves, their families and paid carers and the network of multi-agency stakeholders who are involved in the care and support of this complex client group.
We are guided by the recovery model, the Occupational Therapy Team will also maintain close liaison with the range of existing and new specialist mental health community teams, and social care agencies across the Black Country in order to ensure that people with a learning disability are well supported by the full range of services and opportunities that meet their whole life person centred needs and aspirations.
Working alongside the band 7 advanced practitioner OT, you will support the registered OT in completing a variety of assessments and treatments that work towards a set of developing standards these include:
Ensure that the individual has good occupational balance
Ensuring that the individual has a balance of occupations that meets their health needs
Ensure that individuals have occupations made accessible to them
Ensure that individuals are free from barriers to occupations
Ensure that individuals have occupations that are valued by themselves and their community that change throughout their lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Occupational Therapy Team will provide a full range of assessments, interventions, support, training and advice to individuals themselves, their families and paid carers and the network of multi-agency stakeholders who are involved in the care and support of this complex client group.
We are guided by the recovery model, the Occupational Therapy Team will also maintain close liaison with the range of existing and new specialist mental health community teams, and social care agencies across the Black Country in order to ensure that people with a learning disability are well supported by the full range of services and opportunities that meet their whole life person centred needs and aspirations.
Working alongside the band 7 advanced practitioner OT, you will support the registered OT in completing a variety of assessments and treatments that work towards a set of developing standards these include:
Ensure that the individual has good occupational balance
Ensuring that the individual has a balance of occupations that meets their health needs
Ensure that individuals have occupations made accessible to them
Ensure that individuals are free from barriers to occupations
Ensure that individuals have occupations that are valued by themselves and their community that change throughout their lives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Technical Qualification e.g. NVQ 3 / Btec level 3
- GCSE grade C / grade 4 in Maths and English
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with adults who have a learning disability and / or mental health needs
- Evidence of enabling someone with a learning disability to live more independently
- Experience of a range of interventions both 1:1 and group work
skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate and describe the need for risk assessment.
- Ability to manage own workload
- Experience of supervision
- ability to work as part of a team and with wider agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Technical Qualification e.g. NVQ 3 / Btec level 3
- GCSE grade C / grade 4 in Maths and English
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with adults who have a learning disability and / or mental health needs
- Evidence of enabling someone with a learning disability to live more independently
- Experience of a range of interventions both 1:1 and group work
skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate and describe the need for risk assessment.
- Ability to manage own workload
- Experience of supervision
- ability to work as part of a team and with wider agencies
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
