Occupational Therapy Assistant

Coventry City Council; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council is seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join their team. This role involves delivering assessment and treatment services to customers with disabilities to help them achieve independence. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and a background in care settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in a care, mental or physical health setting.
• Ability to manage and prioritize workload efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and support to customers and carers.
• Organize workload and develop effective relationships.

Skills

Effective communication

Assessment skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Job description

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.
  
  

About The Team We Are Recruiting To

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

What is the job role?

Are you passionate about care and seeking a new challenge? Do you have previous experience within a care, mental or physical health setting? Are you looking to develop new skills in an Occupational Therapy setting?

We are seeking enthusiastic, organised, and reliable individuals to work within our Occupational Therapy team. You will deliver a robust assessment and treatment service to our customers, covering physical, learning, and mental health disabilities.

Your duties will include;

• To provide appropriate assessment and support to customers and formal/informal carers (this could be over the telephone, in a clinic or at the customer’s residence).
• To arrange for appropriate, effective therapy service interventions (within the scope of the role) that enable individuals to achieve optimum control of their lives.
• To provide quality information and advice, signposting and resolving queries to support the Therapy and Equipment Service.
  
  

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

Coventry City Council are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and reliable individual to work within Therapy Team Services

We are looking for a team member who can work as part of a team and work independently, managing and prioritising their own time and workload. You must have excellent communication and computer skills.

You will be working with experienced Occupational Therapists within the community to support people with a range of difficulties, to live as independently as possible within their own home or chosen setting.

Your skills will include:

• Effective communication – in person, written and over the telephone.
• Conducting assessments in the customer’s home or clinic setting to identify their strengths and how they can use these strengths to improve/maintain safety and independence in their chosen home environment
• Providing instruction to customers and their carers to enable them to achieve maximum functional independence.
• Working both independently and as part of a team.
• Organising an allocated workload, planning and prioritising work to achieve objectives and meet deadlines.
• Developing effective working relationships with customers, colleagues and other agencies.
• Maintaining accurate case records on the computer database.
  
  

For Further information please contact Victoria Bodycote on 024 76978559

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
  
  

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council

Attached documents

• Coventry City Council Application Process.pdf
• Job Description and Person Specification.pdf