Occupational Therapy Assistant - Birmingham

Occupational Therapy Assistant

Location: Birmingham

Salary: from £24,483 (dependent on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

The Charity

We are St Andrew’s. We are a thriving charity, and our vision is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

We help people to overcome barriers, and we work tirelessly to help people in our care to find hope.

Are you full of curiosity and ideas? Are you inspired to do the right thing every day, living by our CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence?

Then come join us. Let’s transform lives together.

St Andrew’s Birmingham is a 118 bedded adult mental healthcare facility comprises of eight units that cover medium and low security for both Men and Women. Located in Stirchley, a vibrant area in South Birmingham, easily accessible by road networks and public transport. 

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapy Assistant.  You will work with an OT team to undertake assessments and treatment within a forensic psychiatric setting.

Under the support and guidance of a registered Occupational Therapist, you will use technical and creative skills to provide patient centred programmes of therapeutic activities, to enable an individual to achieve their goals. You will have the opportunity to undertake training to improve your knowledge and skills to enable you to develop in this OT Assistant.

As an Occupational Therapy Assistant you will have the opportunity to work with a highly motivated Occupational Therapy team. There will be opportunities to be involved in staff training and professional development as well as regular individual supervision from a Senior Occupational Therapist.

You should have: 

• An understanding of the role of Occupational Therapy.
• Good team working skills, sound communication skills.
• The ability to work under pressure
• The ability to build a rapport with a challenging patient group
• Organisational skills, an ability to take initiative and complete delegated tasks
• Ability to lead therapeutic activity groups under supervision
• You will have a positive, non-judgmental attitude and work well within a team.
• Creative skills                                      

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing after 10 years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications including an Executive MBA Programme and Coaching and Mentoring Qualifications.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.