Occupational Therapy Assistant

This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly developing Occupational Therapy Service in Tameside. We are an important and integral part of organisational plans for Integrated Social and Health Care Systems across the Tameside footprint. As a service we are actively involved in this process and in some aspects, are at the front edge of delivery and development within these wider Services.

Occupational Therapy Assistants work across three, distinct Occupational Therapy Service areas. Early Intervention and Prevention, Moving and Handling and thirdly Adaptations. We are aligned with other Professionals across four separate neighbourhood Teams. These include Social Workers, District Nursing, and also Primary Care Nursing. Joint Working alongside our Professional colleagues has allowed us to deliver the best outcomes for our Service Users. In addition, our most recent service developments have demonstrated not only the importance of Occupational Therapy to the overall success of service wide developments but also revealed new training and development needs for our Profession., Our commitment and investment in your training and professional development is of upmost importance. Full Training will be provided across all aspects of the roles as required. There are regular Team Meetings and Continuing Professional Development and training are valued and prioritised.

We are looking for an Occupational Therapy Assistant with enthusiasm, passion for learning and development, a great team player and a drive to be part of an exciting, rapidly developing Occupational Therapy Service. The roles and responsibilities will include managing a case load with support from your supervisor, assessing the manual handling needs across community settings and assessing for equipment and adaptations to allow our service users to live an independent and full life., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.