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Occupational Therapy Assistant Birmingham, England

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Full Time Birmingham, England 23949 - 26282 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Occupational Therapy focusses on engaging our children and young people in activity that will contribute towards wellness and recovery. We are seeking people with experience of instilling Connection, Hope, Identity, Meaning, Purpose and Empowerment in our young people through 1:1 or group activities.

Occupational Therapy Assistants work under the supervision of our advanced and specialist Occupational Therapy team to use their personal skills and personality for therapeutic benefit.

When asking our young people what they wanted from an OTA they told us they wanted to be supported by someone with;

Compassion and patience
Someone who will celebrate the little wins as well as the big ones and understand that patience is important
Friendliness and willingness to help
And encouraging approach
With flexibility, one who is able to take different routes and suggest different ideas and paths to ensure progress in a safe, collaborative way
An enthusiastic mentality, good at staying positive
Skills that can help us with meaningful goals rather than goals that we "should" be reaching
Creative ideas
Relevant knowledge, clued up on a lot of diverse activities in the community
The ability to be reliable and consistent in challenging the patient to progress in a non-confrontational way