Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (OT Technical Instructors support individuals and groups in the Seven Day Therapies Programme, typically working some evenings, bank holidays, a Saturday and a Sunday across four weekends.)
- Job ref
- 277-7360171-FOR
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bracton Centre
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £32,199 - £34,876 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/08/2025
Employer heading
Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor
Band 4
Job overview
We are seeking a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor. The post holder will be a member of the wider Occupational Therapy (OT) team and will contribute to the provision of occupational therapy services. You will work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to enable service users to reach their recovery potential and develop the skills necessary to manage their mental illness. You will motivate service users and encourage community re-integration by liaising with suitable local resources to promote social inclusion.
OT Technical Instructors support individuals and groups in the Seven Day Therapies Programme, typically working some evenings, bank holidays, a Saturday and a Sunday across four weekends.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
Key Task and Responsibilities
- To manage your own workload
- To work independently under the supervision of a registered OT as a member of the MDT
- Use technical, creative and psychosocial skills to assist in providing therapeutic activities for individuals/groups of service users
- To take responsibility for leading on the development of service user projects
- Communicate with service users/carers
- Provide feedback on therapeutic activities to supervisor, OT colleagues and MDT
- Have an awareness of social inclusion and skills development and ensure activities used focus on these objectives
- To undertake additional delegated responsibilities as directed by OT supervisor
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance
- To support service users within the forensic service, offering a range of therapeutic activities as well as encourage access to community activities to promote social inclusion
- To attend all relevant mandatory training as directed by the Trust
- To contribute to CPD through participation in training and development opportunities
- To attend the Trust wide OT Support Worker’s Development group
- To participate in and contribute to the development of the service locally
- To ensure relevant national and local polices are implemented
- To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal guided by KSF.
· To work effectively as a member of a team by providing a programme of ward, department or community based therapeutic activities.
· To use technical, creative, psychosocial and daily living skills to engage service users in therapeutic activities to promote independence, wellbeing and social inclusion
· Under supervision of a registered OT, facilitate/co-facilitate planned group work and individual activities
· Contribute to formal OT assessments of service users under the guidance of a registered OT and provide feedback on service users occupational functioning
· Under supervision assist and support service users to achieve their goals
· To engage in the ongoing assessment and treatment of service users and adjust own clinical interventions based on the fluctuating needs of the service users.
· To assist in the implementation, evaluation, and modification of OT interventions
· Under the supervision of a registered OT, develop and implement specific socially inclusive projects to meet the needs of service users.
· To undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and smooth running of the service
- To demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research and apply them to practice
- To broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and research projects
· To communicate appropriately with service users and carers, team members and OT colleagues
· To communicate appropriately with those who have difficulty with communication for any reason.
· To communicate effectively as required within job role using appropriate methods of communication.
· To ensure that up to date electronic and written records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards
· To report effectively to the MDT on service users’ progress/performance in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, and leisure
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification pertaining to health and social care, i.e. City & Guilds or Health & Social Care NVQ Level 2 or equivalent skills acquired through in-service development or experience. · Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working in health/social care/teaching setting · Experience of report/letter writing and form filling · Experience of training others in technical/ leisure skills · Experience of working both independently and in a team, as well as providing group and 1:1 interventions
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work single handed in ward and community settings · An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people who experience mental health problems · Group work skills and an awareness of social inclusion and skills development and ensure activities used focus on these objectives
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Felicia Ajayi / Tryphena Bioh
- Job title
- Occupational Therapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786750098
- Additional information
OT team office - 01322 297187
Tryphena Bioh - [email protected] ; 020 3260 5133
Dawn Douglas - [email protected] ; 02039276176
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