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Occupational Therapy Technician, Band 3
Permanent - Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

The Intensive Home Treatment Team is part of the Older People’s Mental Health Services of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust that works across the Boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich. The post holder will work with the Occupational Therapists in the Intensive Home Treatment Team to deliver interventions recommended after an Occupational Therapy assessment. The post holder will also work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive service to clients. The post holder will be involved in planning and running groups, assisting in discharge planning, and supporting clients to facilitate social inclusion. The post holder will have an allocated number of clients and will support them in their own home on a short-term basis.

All OT clinical work will be carried out under the supervision of the occupational therapists.

• Work as part of the OA IHTT multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
• Use technical, creative, and psychosocial skills to deliver occupational therapy intervention to assist in the provision of a flexible, client centred programme of therapeutic activities for individuals/groups of service users who experience mental health difficulties.
• Have an awareness of social inclusion and skills development and ensure activities used focus on these objectives
• Work autonomously under the guidance of the ward occupational therapists and member of MDT to implement treatment for service users with mental health issues impacting upon function. This will entail both group and 1-1 work.
• Provide treatment in accordance with individualised care plans under the supervision of an occupational therapist
• Support service users to undertake daily activities that are designed to support recovery and independence as directed by the occupational therapist /MDT.
• Attend and contribute to staff and team meetings as required
• Take part in regular supervision and appraisal and attend and participate in mandatory courses and training as indicated.
• Participate in the process of multi-disciplinary working by exchanging appropriate information with service users, staff, carers and others maintaining adherence to data protection guidance and confidentiality at all times.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as directed

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
• To manage own workload
• To work under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist as a member of the MDT and Occupational Therapy team.
• Use technical, creative, and psychosocial skills to assist in providing therapeutic activities for individuals/groups of service users.
• Have an awareness of social inclusion and skills development and ensure activities used focus on these objectives.
• To develop an awareness of and utilise to the benefit of clients, resources available to older people within the Boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
• To liaise and link with resources and services within Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich in regard to mental health needs.
• To undertake additional delegated responsibilities as directed by Occupational Therapy supervisor.
• Communicate with service users their family and carers.
• Provide feedback on therapeutic activities to supervisor, Occupational Therapy colleagues and MDT.

To actively support volunteers and students working within the service.