Priory Healthcare

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?

We have opportunities for Occupational Therapy Assistants to join our established Occupational Therapy Service at Kneesworth House Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The Occupational Therapy Service offers therapeutic activities that are meaningful to each individual to support service users to maintain or develop new skills to promote recovery & well being.

Under the supervision and guidance from an Occupational Therapist you will be actively involved in planning & implementing therapeutic activities and interventions for service users based on their interests, strengths and skills for living they might need to develop or restore. This may be 1:1 or groupwork sessions: on ward, off ward within the Occupational Therapy resource areas on site & within the community.

About us

Kneesworth House is situated in Cambridgeshire (on the borders of Hertfordshire) with good commuting access to / from London. The hospital offers a full pathway of care including Acute, PICU, Medium, Low Secure, Locked Rehabilitation and Open Recovery wards situated across the site.

Details

Date posted

24 March 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£20,000 a year from £20k depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0358-23-0134

Job locations

Partnerships In Care Ltd

Old North Road

Bassingbourn

Royston

Hertfordshire

SG8 5JP


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

Partnerships In Care Ltd

Old North Road

Bassingbourn

Royston

Hertfordshire

SG8 5JP


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Priory Healthcare

Address

Partnerships In Care Ltd

Old North Road

Bassingbourn

Royston

Hertfordshire

SG8 5JP


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 Administrator

Lee Atkinson

LeeAtkinson@priorygroup.com

01763255700

Details

Date posted

24 March 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£20,000 a year from £20k depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0358-23-0134

Job locations

Partnerships In Care Ltd

Old North Road

Bassingbourn

Royston

Hertfordshire

SG8 5JP


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