Therapy Technician

Do you enjoy using activities to support people in their independence as well as supporting them to make the transition to the community? Do you like helping people achieve their own goals? Do you want to develop your skills with the backing of a well-developed occupational therapy team? An opportunity has arisen to recruit a Therapy Technician full time within the well-established Occupational Therapy team at the Allington Centre. We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative Therapy Technician to work within the service. Therapy Technicians are recognised as essential, and valued members of the multi-disciplinary team. As a Therapy Technician you will work alongside the Occupational Therapists supporting them in the implementation of assessments, as well as group and individual interventions. In addition to personal and clinical development opportunities, we offer a number of additional opportunities including regular supervision, Personal Development Plans, and support for Continual Professional Development activities., Under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist and in consultation with professionally registered members of the Multidisciplinary Team the post holder will be expected to assist in the delivery of therapeutic interventions within the service by

• Using skills and experience to plan and provide flexible, service user centred, 1:1 or group activity based interventions that contribute to meeting the assessed needs of service users and treatment service as outlined within their care plan.
• Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to facilitate therapeutic interventions for service users and carers
• Undertaking clinically related administration, and to assist with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of a service, to service users and their carers, guided by an appropriate senior colleague., To work effectively as a member of the MDT assisting in delivering individual or group interventions to promote the strengths, wellbeing and recovery of service users and carers.
• To monitor service users' progress, reporting on their psychological, physical, behavioural, occupational and social response to interventions.
• To adapt interventions ensuring that they support the service user and carer to meet their needs, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences, adjusting own approach accordingly.
• To assist with or contribute to the assessment of activities of daily living, maintaining service users' dignity and privacy, observing changes both positive and negative and reporting appropriately.
• To effectively establish a therapeutic relationship with service users and their relatives/carers.
• To contribute to and comply with individual, environmental and activity-related risk assessments and to communicate issues around risk to others involved in service users care.
• To support and undertake community access /engagement for service users and carers.
• To assist with non-clinical tasks to ensure the smooth running of a service guided by an appropriate senior colleague.
• To attend and actively participate in relevant clinical meetings/forums.
  
  Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life. We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC. Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community. We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas. You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones. The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service. Our strategy Our mission is what we set out to do every day We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people Our vision is where we want to be in the future To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.