Occupational Therapy Assistant - Sowenna

Main area Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  

Site Sowenna Town Bodmin Salary £25,760 - £27,476 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/11/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

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• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

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• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
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Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for two Occupational Therapy Assistants to join our in-patient team at Sowenna, working with young people with severe and enduring mental health presentations. This is a great time to be joining an expanding team and the post will provide the opportunity to contribute to the development of OT practices, working within a creative and innovative multi-disciplinary team.

The successful practitioners will be an integral part of the ward team, as well as key members of the wider MDT, supporting clinical staff and providing advice and guidance on the ward. We are looking for candidates preferably with experience of children’s mental health services, although this is not essential. The successful practitioners will be required to draw upon the developing evidence base to support assessment, formulation, intervention, and evaluation processes.

For further details, please contact Kirsty Pape, Senior Occupational Therapist, Tel:

To manage individuals and groups of patients who are engaged in social and recreational activities on and off the ward. This may include people who have physical disability and health needs, behaviours that challenge and learning disabilities as well as an acute episode of mental illness

To contribute to the assessment of patients by reporting presentations, changes, performance and progress whilst engaged in individual and group activities.

To complete occupational therapy interventions as directed from the ward based OT

Delivering individual and group OT interventions.

Supporting occupational assessments through observation and feedback.

Maintaining therapeutic boundaries.

Promoting independence, recovery and social inclusion.

Facilitating ADL, life skills, vocational, leisure and sensory interventions.

Working with patients presenting with distress, challenging behaviour or cognitive impairment.

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