Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will become an integral part of multi-disciplinary teams, working alongside the registered Occupational Therapists to assess cognitive and functional ability in order to develop individualised and collaborative treatment plans for our service users. 

You will be required to carry out delegated work from the team to support the provision of person centred care under various levels of supervision, appropriate to your knowledge and skills.

You will be flexible in your approach to building therapeutic relationships with service users and will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.

Apprenticeship Programme:
As this is a future apprentice position opportunity, you will be required to successfully complete an Occupational Therapist Apprenticeship whilst undertaking the requirements of the position.
Applicants will be required to have already obtained the required entry requirements (detailed below) and able to provide evidence of any certification of qualifications, to ensure they are eligible. This will need to be evidenced prior to an unconditional offer of employment can be made.
Due to the clinical environment, applicants will need to be aged 18 or over, and therefore a minimum age limit would apply to this role.
Your exact pattern of work and study time will need to be agreed with your line manager. You will need to be able to evidence approximately 6 hours per working week of your working hours, across the full duration of your programme as ‘new learning’. Depending on the delivery mode of your apprenticeship programme this requirement may be met through a combination of assessor contacts, university and online attendance and workplace learning and mentoring.

Eligibility for an Apprenticeship Programme Eligibility criteria for apprenticeships are dictated by the National Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and the UK government. Within the funding rules it stipulates that to be eligible for an apprenticeship: Within these rules it stipulates that:
(1) You must have been an ordinary resident of the UK/EU country for at least 3 years prior to the start date of the apprenticeship (which does not include time on a student visa).
(2) You must have enough time remaining on your current visa to cover the full duration of the apprenticeship programme.
(3) Not completing another government funded programme of learning at the same time as the apprenticeship. We will be required to check the above eligibility criteria before an unconditional offer of employment, which includes the apprenticeship programme, can be made.
If a candidate is unable to meet the required entry level for the apprenticeship, then they will be unable to commence the future apprenticeship element of this post.
We as a Trust have no jurisdiction on the funding rules set by the ESFA or Government therefore unable to employ ineligible applicants into this apprenticeship position.

Please see job description for full list of responsibilities. 

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Kat Gilmurray, Lead Occupational Therapist for BANES using the contact details provided.