Occupational Therapy Assistant

Are you looking for a new challenge with the opportunity to expand and develop your skills? Are you passionate about supporting older people's mental health? If so, we at MHSOP Intensive Community Liaison Service (ICLS) want to hear from you! We are an established service working across the Teesside Locality supporting residents in care homes and within their own homes ell-established and aims to support personalised recovery plans and work with individuals to help re-establish purposeful and meaningful lives. The successful applicant will work under the direction of qualified Occupational Therapists with a strong focus on delivering high quality evidence based services that directly support recovery, occupational formulation and occupational engagement., The successful postholder will be responsible for working with delegated service users and contributing to assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.

You will engage service users and their carers in therapeutic programmes of care, supporting them in achieving their identified goals and promoting independence and well-being through a client-centred approach.

You willparticipate in clinical supervision andcontribute to multi-disciplinary team working.

In addition to this, the post holder willcontribute to safety and quality improvement activities as part of occupational therapy team.

You willuse the Trust electronic patient record system,abide by all Trust policies and procedures, andbe able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenge.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.