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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Using a range of practical and creative skills
- Experience
Worked with people who have experienced mental health problems
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of equal Opportunities and confidentiality
- Knowledge and Skills
Basic understanding of needs and concerns of service users in a forensic mental health setting
- Knowledge and Skills
Understanding of OT and ability to learn about the OT process
- Knowledge and Skills
Interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic alliances to be developed and maintained with service users who have complex needs.
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Worked within an forensic mental health setting
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
NVQ and/or B-tech in Care related skills
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
Qualification in relevant practical skills
Job overview
This post is an opportunity for a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistant to work in the Medium Secure Forensic Service. This role involves being part of the Recovery-focused Occupational Therapy Team carrying out specialist group and individual work within the inpatient unit working across acute, rehab and specialist wards.
The ideal candidate will have experience of working in mental health and / or a forensic setting. Please contact Sean Harte on 020 85102417 for further details.
Main duties of the job
To support the OT service in providing specialist OT treatment in inpatient and community settings - To implement the OT treatment plans through the provision of specialist individual and group treatment programmes - To positively contribute to the development of the forensic mental health occupational therapy service - To collaborate with the MDT team in its provision of assessment and treatment of service users
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Under the supervision of an Occupational Therapist, to implement agreed occupational therapy treatment plans by carrying out practical individual and group activities with service users. To collaborate with senior OT staff to review and modify specialist treatment programmes when necessary. To assist senior OT staff in the assessment and treatment of service users in a specialist mental health service. - To work and liaise appropriately with the multi-disciplinary team, including attendance at service user-related meetings as directed. - Effectively maintain records and report observations of service users’ progress and performance verbally and in writing. - To ensure that all clinical contact carried out incorporates risk assessment and appropriate management of risk. - To participate in the development of evidence based delivery of therapeutic interventions, as directed by qualified staff members. - To work flexibly in the delivery of treatment. -To contribute to the Recovery college programme of activities.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Occupational Therapy Assistant with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Occupational therapy assistant role. The advertised salary is £34,186 - £37,389 per annum Inc HCAs. The contract type is 6 months (fixed term). The application deadline is 01 Oct 2026.
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