Working as an Occupational Therapy Assistant at Emerald Place Clinic, you will be part of a new inclusive and supportive team that will work together to provide care to young people with acute mental health conditions where you will use your knowledge and skills to help support young people lead a valued and fulfilled life. The service is opening in January 2024.

A warm and nurturing environment is supported, allowing for the understanding of symptoms, patterns, and origins of psychological distress, and will actively encourage the young people to personalise bedroom spaces to make these feel like a home from home.

The activity programmes will be based on a therapeutic approach to care and will be monitored daily, ensuring safety is maintained and all participate your programmes and to support those who lack motivation within sessions.

You will work alongside the team at Emerald Place Clinic to ensure service users have access to therapeutic interventions to meet their recovery needs and are provided with a range of activities and initiatives to promote healthier lifestyles and skill development.

As an Occupational Therapy Assistant, you will work 37.5 hours a week and will be working flexible hours to support the needs of the service, this includes some evenings and weekends. This a great opportunity to utilise and develop your creative and organisational skillset as you will be responsible for providing cultural events for the ward and hospital.

Hours: 37.5 Full-Time

You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time

Our Occupational Therapy Assistant role involves:

Daily, monitoring programme activity and being proactive in ensuring that meaningful therapeutic activity is provided safelyTo facilitate meaningful activities on an individual and group basisAssist in writing and updating Risk Assessments for activity and risk of environment for all relevant interventionsWorking collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team members on patient activityWorking flexible working hours to suit the needs of the serviceContributing to the creation of patient and ward timetables, ensuring that patients have access to therapeutic interventions to meet their recovery needs and are provided with a range of activities to promote healthier lifestyles and skill developmentProviding effective and accurate clinical entries and outcome of activities using an electronic patient database systemDeveloping patients' programmes as informed by individual patient's needsTo use creative and organisational skills in providing cultural events for the ward and hospitalSupporting patients in developing vocational skills using activity and engagementSupporting patents within community integration, running community-based activities using public transport and locally based resourcesSupporting the MDT by contributing within ward discussions, community meetings and reflective practice discussionsWorking with patients individually in specific interventions as recommended by the Multidisciplinary team, in order to enable patients to meet their recovery needsWorking individually with patients that lack motivation, supporting them to engageLiaising with the MDT to enhance staff/client working relationshipsParticipating in monthly clinical supervision with the Occupational Therapist and the organisation's system of appraisalParticipating in team building and other staff support measures to help the team developParticipating in and actively supporting the clinic's quality improvement programmeBeing conversant and follow corporate, hospital and local policies and procedureComplying with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and related legislationEngaging in Continual Professional Development (CPD) opportunities when availableExperience developing and facilitating psychoeducational sessionsDevelop links with other supportive external agencies as well as facilitate onsite workshopsBe able to manage the activities budget; including petty cash; reconciling receipts etcManaging resources and timely re-ordering in order stock levels of craft and art activitiesCoordination of Community Meeting; chairing the meeting in absence of volunteer; subsequent completion of actions and documentation and dissemination of minutes to all staff To be successful in this role, you'll need:

Previous experience of working with adults and or young people with mental health disordersAny other specific skills which can be utilised in this setting: Art & Craft, Horticulture, Cooking, MusicGood communication, effective computer, and good organisational skillsPrevious experience of organising/facilitating social events and activitiesAny relevant certificates, courses, and skills that would enhance the delivery and diversity of therapeutic activitiesAbility to design meaningful activity timetables and source inventive activities suitable and relevant to the service user cohort Where you will be working:

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Elysium Healthcare are working in partnership to provide a new mental health inpatient service for young people in Surrey in a new purpose-built unit. Emerald Place Clinic is available solely for NHS funded care and treatment and the partnership brings together complementary expertise and best practice to jointly manage the inpatient unit and deliver a high-quality service for young people.

Emerald Place Clinic is a general adolescent inpatient unit for the care and treatment of young people aged 13 up to the age of 18. Young people who are admitted to the unit will have a primary diagnosis of mental illness across a wide range of disorders and complex needs. These could include mental health conditions such as mood disorders and acute psychosis. Additionally young people may have co-existing additional needs such