OT Assistant Therapy Practitioner

OT Assistant Therapy Practitioner within Forest House Adolescent unit and enhanced specialist pathways .

Are you interested in being part of children's inpatient services in Hertfordshire? Do you have a passion for supporting recovery through occupational therapy? If so we want to hear from you!, We are looking for an enthusiastic OT Assistant Therapy Practitioner to work with children and young people with mental health disorders . The Forest House General Adolescent unit aims to support all young people treatment where appropriate to support individuals in their recovery, help facilitate hospital transitions and support and facilitate early discharge.

You will be part of the Forest House team who are a large caring multi-disciplinary team. Forest House works collaboratively within the Hertfordshire using therapeutic and trauma informed approaches to support our young people to a place of recovery and remission.

We are a caring team; working closely to ensure we support people using our service, their family/loved ones, our colleagues and each other. We are excited about the progression of the service and possibility of positively impacting peoples recovery journey.

We are looking for staff who hold our team and Trust values. Ideally you will have experience of working with people with mental health issues and/or children and young people.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?