Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor, Learning Disabilities & ASD - St Andrew's Healthcare : Job Details

Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor

Location: Northampton: Northamptonshire

Salary: from £24,483 per annum dependent on experience

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

About Us

We are St Andrew's. We are a mental health Charity and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.

We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come and join us, and support us to help people transform their lives.

The heart of our service is our multidisciplinary team of dedicated specialist clinicians that integrates knowledge and skills for autism & learning disabilities, psychiatry and forensics to provide outstanding care and treatment for our patients.

Our research interests mirror this and we actively encourage our team members to pursue research interests at the intersection of autism & learning disabilities and forensic psychiatry to improve our clinical outcomes. Your research interests may build upon on our current national and international collaborations.

“Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.”

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor with an interest in working within Adult ASD & Learning Disabilities. You will work with an OT team to undertake assessments and treatment within a forensic psychiatric setting.

Under the support and guidance of a registered Occupational Therapist, you will use technical and creative skills to provide patient centred programmes of therapeutic activities, to enable an individual to achieve their goals. You will have the opportunity to undertake training to improve your knowledge and skills to enable you to develop in this OT TI role.

The Occupational Therapy Team provide support across the ASD and Learning Disabilities medium, low and locked rehab wards, working as part of the MDT. The Team work 7.5hrs / day from Monday to Friday. You will be line managed and supervised by a qualified Occupational Therapist.

You should have:

• An understanding of the role of Occupational Therapy within autism and learning Disabilities
• Good team working skills, sound communication skills.
• The ability to work under pressure
• The ability to build a rapport with a challenging patient group
• Organisational skills, an ability to take initiative and complete delegated tasks
• Ability to lead therapeutic activity groups under supervision
• You will have a positive, non-judgmental attitude and work well within a team.
• Creative skills

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 10 years service; Life cover; Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.