Occupational Therapy Assistant Pracitioner

To contribute to the delivery of interventions and support activities to enable recovery inservice users accessing the Community Team. The post holder will provide a range ofclinical interventions to service users and their carers. The Community Team is amultidisciplinary team providing interventions to adults with a wide range of mental healthneeds the service aims to promote recovery and increased functioning.The role will involve, both group and individual work with clients in their local communities,placing strong emphasis on skills development and social inclusion. The role will also includeopportunity to facilitate new group activitiesTo work under the direction and supervision of qualified Occupational Therapy staff., To assist the support and recovery of service users within the CommunityTeam in order to provide a range of psychosocial interventions with service users which aim to improve a person's mental health in three main areas of self-care, productivity and leisure and also reduce their emotional distress.- The Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner will work within defined competencies and without direct supervision to provide a flexible range of therapeutic activities for Adults within their own homes, trust community settings, and local community- Undertaking individual therapeutic activities with clients to promoteindependence and wellbeing, sometimes requiring tact and persuasion orwhere there may be barriers to understanding. Assessing client's responses to activities and amending programmes of activity where necessary, making judgements on when to escalate clinical issues to the Occupational Therapist.- To work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members/service provider in
the provision of supporting the service user. To effectively communicate and highlight any clinical risks and report this to the multidisciplinary team in a proficient and timely fashion and if necessary contribute to ongoing risk reduction and management.

Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values