Occupational Therapy Assistant

We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking team member to join our Occupational Therapy Department as an Occupational Therapy Assistant.

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

As a Band 2 assistant experience working with occupational therapy is not essential, but applicants must have good people skills and have had experience of caring for another person (personally or professionally). On the job training will be provided for this post and will included enrolment in the care certificate programme. Working as an OT Assistant would be considered extremely desirable.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

The post holders would support qualified Occupational Therapists in the assessment and rehabilitation of wide variety of patients. In addition there are also clerical and housekeeping duties in the role.

Post holder must hold a driving licence. This is required to deliver and fit essential equipment into patients homes.

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Work under the guidance of qualified OTs in providing functional treatment for patients experiencing physical and cognitive deficits;
• Support qualified therapists during home assessments in the community;
• Communicate relevant information on patients’ conditions and performance;
• Communicate effectively with other disciplines both internally and externally;
• Take responsibility for training and supervising new OT Assistants and Students;
• Co-operate with other department staff in the efficient management of department stocks and equipment levels

A detailed job description can be found attached to this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good general education
• GCSE / equivalent in Maths and English level c or above

Desirable criteria

• NVQ in OT or relevant care areas
• Understanding OT within the MDT

COMPETENCIES

Essential criteria

• Work with people
• Good level of written English
• Ability to work single handedly with individuals and groups
• Efective written and verbal communication skills
• Team Player – understanding of team dynamics
• Computer literate

Desirable criteria

• Use of and Electronic patient record / medical system

Professional

Essential criteria

• Work with people in a caring capacity
• Understanding of OT role

Desirable criteria

• Work as an OT assistant
• Customer care training or awareness

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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