Senior Occupational Therapy Assistant for Education, Work and Vocation

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistant to join the Women's Secure Blended Service and the Forensic CAMHS Team at Ardenleigh. The successful applicant will join both already established Occupational Therapy Services. These services provide assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and aftercare to our service users with complex mental health needs. Birmingham is culturally diverse city; as a team we are looking to provide OT services that are compassionate, inclusive, and committed to our service users and staff to ensure excellent care. We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate into our teams.

The role will require the individual to work autonomously and use initiative to develop our shared areas such as the shop, library and hub to make these safe spaces for our service users to get their needs met, enhance their recovery and provide educational and work opportunities. The hub space is a new space we aim to develop into a working internet coffee shop for our service users and staff. This is a really exciting opportunity for the staff member to develop this space alongside service users with the aim of supporting service users' recovery, provide a space for education and build skills such as resilience, time management and communication.

Main duties of the job

Under supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist the post holder will be expected to:

• To role model pro social attitudes and behaviours.
• To maintain safe and effective working practices and take steps to minimise risk.
• To work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure the appropriateness of worker roles available to service users.
• Use technical/creative skills to assist in the provision of a flexible, client centred programme of therapeutic activities.
• To provide oversight and leadership of the therapeutic worker roles and ensure that these are provided in line with service user need.
• To provide leadership of the internal shop, including operational management i.e. Till operation/money management, stock control/ stock rotation, the ordering,
• It will be a requirement the post holder will need to demonstrate a positive attitude towards the client group and promote recovery activities.
• The role will include lone working with service users
• To provide oversight of the general running of the Library alongside leadership to ensure that the Library worker role is relevant and beneficial to service users.
• To establish excellent working relationships with the wider MDT to enable a collaborative co-created space for service users to gain experience working in a coffee shop, running of the timetable, computer caf, events planning and facilitation.
• To maintain accurate clinical records and appropriate data.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.