Job summary
Employer heading
Technical Instructor (Occupational Therapist Assistant)
Band 4
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
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YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
Wedgwood House have an exiting opportunity for the role of a technical instructor. This is a role which service users consistently identify as having a positive impact upon their recovery and their experiences in mental health inpatient services
This post is specifically to assist the Occupational Therapists in assessment and delivery of OT interventions to our patients in the older persons mental health assessment and treatment ward. Relevant experience will be required with a flair for working intuitively within the Occupational Therapy ethos, with the ultimate aim of assisting our patients to maintain skills so that a smooth transition to returning home can occur.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to work with teams across Wedgwood to support service users in undertaking physical activity. We have a gym and areas to facilitate activities.
You will also facilitate time away from the unit with identified individuals in order to access community resources and engage with nature.
A relevant qualification as a physical instructor or evidence of near completion of this training will be essential for this post.
As a unit we pride ourselves on working together to deliver high quality care and to support each other through any challenging times.
We recognise that working with the same methods doesn’t work forever; and we will continue to challenge the way we do things to create the best services we can, centred on the people who use them.
We are focused on Quality Improvement led care delivery and are looking for energetic people who want to make a difference and be part of dynamic teams who like to think outside of the box.
Working for our organisation
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interviews are to be confirmed, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days’ notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for someone with an interest and background in mental health care to work with existing staff to help drive our standards upwards. Whilst the primary focus is on those who have experience of working in adult inpatient mental health environments, we would also welcome applications from those who may have less experience in this specific field but feel that their existing knowledge and skills can bring something special to our staff teams.
We value life skills, lived experience and a commitment to work with us to meet the needs of the ward. We are keen to integrate individuals existing skills into the services we are able to provide, as well as supporting personal and professional development through additional training.
If you are someone who relishes a challenge, works well under pressure and likes to be part of a great team then we would welcome your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3/ or formal technical qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with groups of people
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work unsupervised in clinical/ community settings
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Health and safety risk awareness
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake and maintain annual, Breakaway Training
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vanessa Cotter
- Job title
- Modern Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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