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Occupational Therapy Assistant, Band 3
Permanent,Part Time: 22.50 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the multi-disciplinary team in an Older adults mental health rehabilitation service. The post holder will work as part of the team at Oaktree Lodge, inpatient mental health rehabilitation.

Oaktree Lodge is a 15 bedded mixed gender rehabilitation unit which is part of the South London Partnership New Models of Care. The team is a friendly and supportive and welcome new staff and the ideas and skills they bring.

The post holder will work with and under supervision of the OT and contribute to the development and delivery of occupational therapy interventions and team interventions.

The post involves a mix of opportunities including:

• Group interventions such as: creative activities, fitness activities, healthy and wellbeing, music, gardening, relaxation.
• 1:1 interventions to build functional and social skills; structure a routine and making links into the community.
• Promoting social inclusion and community connections

This post is based at Oaktree Lodge, an open mental health rehabilitation in-patient unit serving South London as part of the South London Partnership.

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

There is an active CPD programme which includes regular professional supervision and appraisals and opportunities to be involved in quality improvement projects. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust operates over 3 London Boroughs and Kent, including child and adolescent, adult and older adult mental health, forensics and community health. Therefore, there are opportunities for a broad range of career development.

Under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist the postholder will: -

• Work as part of the inpatient Occupational therapy team
• Use technical, creative and psychosocial skills to assist in the provision of a flexible, client centred programme of therapeutic activities for individuals/groups of clients who experience mental health difficulties.
• Work independently with individuals and groups under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist.
• Have an awareness of social inclusion and skills development and ensure activities used focus on these objectives