Occupational Therapy Assistant

This is a fixed-term/secondment opportunity for 12 months to August 2027**

This is a fixed-term/secondment opportunity for 12 months to August 2027**

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are looking to employ a dynamic, compassionate and aspirational individual for the role of Occupational Therapy Assistant in our Neuro team, as a fixed-term post for 12 months to cover a secondment.

You will split your time between working as part of the Acute Stroke Unit Therapy Team and the Neuro Rehab Unit team, supporting functional assessment, rehabilitation and discharge planning to patients during their inpatient stay.

The successful applicant will be passionate about delivering high quality patient care and outcomes. You will require excellent communication skills to build rapport with patients, their relatives / carers and the multidisciplinary team. You will have a good previous level of experience working with inpatients, ability to run group sessions, sound IT skills and demonstrate the Trust’s values of Compassion, Aspiration, Resourcefulness and Excellence.

Regular appraisal, supervision and support will be given to develop you as an individual in the therapy team with many opportunities to progress further. You will work alongside senior colleagues to implement new initiatives to continue to develop the service in line with best practice and clinical guidelines.

To be an occupational therapy assistant working to assist the occupational therapists in the therapeutic management of patients for the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Hospital (RBFT).

Under supervision to facilitate and participate in ongoing patient treatment and assessment.

To work effectively as a team member in carrying out, under direction, assessment of patient’s functional activities including personal care assessments, meal preparation and assisting on home visits when required.

To participate in providing a high quality, effective and efficient occupational therapy service.

Under supervision of a registered OT, provide a range of activities, instructing and guiding patients, individually or in groups, to support them in achieving identified goals and promoting independence.

To undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and smooth running of the service.

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority.

The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is Reading's biggest employer.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our  CARE  values: Com passionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Come and join our team as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Erica Key

Job title:

Team Lead Occupational Therapist - Neuro Email address: eri Telephone number: