Rochdale Adult Care is pleased to offer an opportunity to undertake the role on a casual basis of an Occupational Therapy Assistant. Hours will be available predominantly across 5 weekdays within the core team hours of 8.30 to 16.45. It will allow the role to fit alongside studies.

This is an exciting time to join Rochdale as we continue with integration between health and social care, further developing our locality teams and services to meet the needs of communities in new and innovative ways.

This will be an opportunity for you to undertake a paid role within a Statutory setting, further developing your knowledge and skills around Community Occupational Therapy practice in a social care setting and Adult Care legislation & procedure while working alongside Occupational Therapists and other social care practitioners.

The successful candidate will work alongside our Occupational Therapist within the busy Prevention Service.

In order to undertake this role there will be mandatory training that will need to be completed in addition to some ongoing training and development sessions to build your confidence and knowledge of the role and the Adult Care ICT systems.

We would encourage applications from people who are undertaking their Occupational Therapy Degree. Though this is not a specific requirement we would also encourage applications from people with the relevant skills that can work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.

If you are successful through the recruitment process, you will be contacted to determine your availability for the coming months. As this is a casual role, you will be paid for hours that you work each month, on submission of the relevant time sheets.

For successful candidates that are currently undertaking their Occupational Therapy Degree or Masters, upon completion of your course, there may be further opportunities to apply for qualified roles within the authority, following internal processes.

The Teams and Responsibilities

We have 5 Integrated Neighborhood Teams (INTs),as well as Prevention and Preparing for Adulthood (PFA) as below, and work alongside our health colleagues to deliver needs led services across Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale.

Prevention

Preparing for Adulthood

Rochdale North

Rochdale South

Heywood

Pennine

Middleton

The Community Occupational Therapy Service is centrally managed with a central duty team. Each INT has Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants working within the INT. The work is varied and includes assessment and recommendation of equipment and minor adaptations for adults with a range of conditions including learning disabilities, mental health, complex needs, older people and those with enduring diagnoses. You will be supporting the work of the Occupational Therapists and completing equipment reviews as well as assessing residents for low level equipment and minor adaptations.

The Prevention Team where the role is based is our front door service which encourages people to be more proactive about their health and wellbeing.

The Occupational Therapy role in Prevention is focussed on early response, reducing risk, maintain independence and reducing the need for care.

The work is varied and predominantly home assessments within the Community and assisting Rochdale residents to maintain their safety and independence in their own homes.