Senior Occupational Therapy Assistant

Band 3 - Senior Occupational Therapy Assistant

Are you

• Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that everyday matters,
• Ready for a new challenge,
• Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations,
• Committed to making the NHS having a brighter future?

Do you want

• To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting,
• Grow your knowledge about equipment provision and your clinical skills,
• Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience,
• Develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders?

We can offer

• A great opportunity to mix patient facing assessment skills and equipment provision,
• Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support, supervision, and appraisal from senior colleagues,
• Generous training opportunities,
• A great enthusiastic friendly team to work along side.

Our department, based at Frimley Park Hospital, works across a range of specialities which include:
Acute & Elderly Care Medicine, A&E, Stroke, Orthopaedics & Surgery.

• To provide excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth.
• The post is a key part of the OT service, and is responsible for undertaking patient facing, equipment, housekeeping, and administrative duties. It also involves liaison with outside agencies and patients' families so excellent communication skills are essential.
• The post is based at Wexham Park Hospital. Our teamshave a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we also participate in care certificate and apprentice programmes. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

• GCSE / equivalent in Maths and English level c or above
• NVQ in OT or relevant care areas

• Basic knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance.
• Understanding the OT role within the MDT.
• Ability to work single handedly with individuals and groups
• Efective written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
• Health and safety legislation related to adaptive equipment.

• Experience working as an OT Assistant
• Customer care training or awareness
• Basic teaching methods for practical tasks.
• Standard operating procedure on infection control.
• Work with wheelchairs/adaptive equipment.
• Training and facilitation skills.
• Use of the Tiara Therapy Computer system.

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.

£26,240 to £27,928 a yearper annum incl HCAS