Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Coventry is seeking an Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join their supportive team. The role involves developing skills with individuals with learning disabilities and requires access to reliable transport. Applicants should be enthusiastic and self-motivated, with experience in a health or social care setting. The position offers generous leave, excellent development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

Staff networks

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and self-motivated individual willing to work towards the Assistant Practitioner qualification.
• Experience in health or social care settings is essential.
• Must have access to reliable transport and hold a valid UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Develop skills and knowledge around working with people with Learning Disabilities.
• Innovate to support service in preventing inappropriate admissions to specialist hospitals.
• Work collaboratively within the patient’s care pathway.

Skills

Resilience

Flexibility

Collaborative working

Job description

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for this well‐established role as an Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team. We’re looking to recruit an enthusiastic, dynamic, self‑motivated individual, willing and able to work towards the Assistant Practitioner qualification and who would like to develop their skills in learning disabilities working with Occupational Therapists (OTs). The postholder will work alongside and under the supervision of experienced OTs who are able to provide support and clinical direction to them.

Key Responsibilities

The successful applicant will be willing to develop their skills and knowledge around working with people with a Learning Disability who may also be Autistic, taking on new challenges and innovating to support the service in preventing inappropriate admissions to specialist hospitals due to mental ill‑health or challenging behaviours. Experience of working in either a health or social care community or an in‑patient setting is essential.

Qualifications and Skills

Personal qualities will need to include resilience, flexibility and a willingness to work collaboratively with colleagues within the patient’s care pathway, considering the complex, varied, and often challenging client group. The role requires travel across the entire geographical area of the Trust; applicants must have access to reliable transport and hold a valid UK driving licence.

Benefits and Development Opportunities

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• Wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more
• Staff networks and support group

About Us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

How to Apply

See the attached Job description and person specification for details of the job duties and applicants’ knowledge, skills and experience requirements for shortlisting.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025.