Occupational Therapy Assistant Little Plumstead
Job description
Our motivated activity team at the Broadland Clinic Medium Secure service/Little Plumstead Hospital run a varied and exciting programme of Recovery focussed meaningful activities. You’ll have chance to design and deliver meaningful activities, interventions and events, and contribute to our vibrant timetable. We take great pride in working towards social inclusion, and you will support patients through their pathway from admission and assessment to meaningful roles in the community. As an Occupational Therapy Assistant, you’ll be working directly with our service users to deliver meaningful goals lead activities.
This role could offer you an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge whether you are seeking your first post or considering a change. Working alongside an established senior OTs, assistants and education staff, and an experienced MDT including Medical, Nursing, SLT, Psychology and Social Work colleagues.
The Broadland Clinic is a medium secure unit for adult men who have offended or are at risk of doing so, we also have assessment and treatment and two community teams on site. Be part of our NHS trust, HPFT who are currently rated as Outstanding by CQC”. Patient involvement is at the heart of what we do. Our mission statement is Supporting people to lead good lives. Staff and patients working together to: Promote recovery, Build skills, Reduce risk.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Please see Job description and personal specification. This is a full-time role. Applications should provide clear evidence of meeting the criteria in the Personal Specification. Car driver and ability to undertake physical restraint training essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving). Please call for further details or for an informal visit.
