[ref. b02772016] Sheffield - Occupational Therapy Assistant

Are you a confident individual who would like to explore an Occupational Therapy Assistant role and a more rewarding clinical challenge in female mental health and personality disorder services? Are you ready to develop your clinical skills?

Location: 83 East Bank Road, Sheffield, S2 3PX

Join our supportive friendly team near the lively city of Sheffield and make an application today.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Kerry Booth - Head OT - kerrybooth@cygnethealth.co.uk or via telephone on 0114 279 3350. Alternatively please contact our Specialist Recruiter - Katie Dixon – KatieDixon@Cygnethealth.co.uk

With over 150 OTs in the company, we also work together as a large team providing support to each other across the group, with various specialist interest groups to tap into, including Mental Health, Neuropsychiatry, Autism, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Integration, to name a few.

Cygnet Hospital Sheffield offers a low secure service for women and CAMHS services for male and female adolescents over three distinct wards. As an Occupational Therapy Assistant at Cygnet Sheffield, you will be based on Unicorn Ward.

We are dedicated to providing gender sensitive care and treatment for women detained under the Mental Health Act. Spencer Ward is the only female low secure unit in South Yorkshire.

On Spencer Ward, our service users are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that every individual has the potential for recovery, personal growth and an improved quality of life.

As an Occupational Therapy Assistant, you will provide direct clinical care under the supervision of the Occupational Therapist. This will encompass the use of OT assessments and treatment in both groups and individual sessions.

In this role you will help devise and implement an OT treatment programme according to service user’s diagnosis and identified needs. This will be based upon findings from assessments including associated risks, in order to develop treatment plans accordingly.

Prioritisation skills are key to manage the caseload of clients effectively and you will work closely with the Occupational Therapist and multidisciplinary team onsite.

1. We care about people in our services
2. Opportunity to work across two sites expanding your experience and skill set.
3. Low caseload number to support intensive OT focused interventions.

We are looking for people who:

• Are highly motivated
• Experienced in the field of adult mental health or personality disorder environments.
• An understanding of Occupational Therapy and the process/interventions
• Excellent communication and time management skills
• Ability to manage highly demanding clinical presentation

In return we will offer you:

• A competitive salary
• Opportunities for CPD and to undertake further learning and development. For example: OT formulation and re-motivation
• Training days provided by highly experienced and renowned OT specialists
• On site clinical supervision and peer support.
• Company pension scheme
• NHS Discount Cards & Blue Light Card
• Free parking & meals on duty

Requirements

The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS and reference check and an offer of employment will be subject to successful clearance.

*Please note - speculative recruitment emails are not to be sent directly to our clinical staff, these need to go via our internal recruitment team. If speculative candidates are sent directly to a member of the clinical team, we will consider these candidates as our own*