Assistant practitioner (Occupational Therapy) Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Job description
The Secure care CBU is a regional service offering care and treatment to individuals who have either mental health, personality disorder or learning disability diagnoses and have come into contact with the Criminal justice system. The service works across medium and low secure inpatient wards, the community and prison.
This post has been created within our community mental health services to support our Occupational Therapists deliver interventions that maximise our service user’s ability to live meaningful, safe lives in the community as independently as possible. The successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating group and 1:1 interventions that support our service users to transition out of medium and low secure hospital environments. The job also involves supporting people to have a routine within the community, that includes personal and domestic activities of daily living, productive activity and socially inclusive leisure pursuits.
Specialised technical and creative skills to facilitate 1:1 and group activities that promote recovery well being and independence.
Carry a delegated case load from Occupational Therapists; carry out aspects of their therapy goals and feeding back progress
Work as part of the multi disciplinary team which includes Consultant Psychiatrists, Nursing, Psychology, Speech and language, support staff to understand general well being, risks to self and others.
Support service users and their carers to be directly involved in developing our services.
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 23rdMay 2023
Closing date : 6thJune 2023
We welcome your application.
This post can be tailored to suit either people with the right skill set, looking to start their NHS careers or those wishing to gain experience within a different clinical speciality.
