Recovery and Enablement Specialist Vocational Instructor

Recovery and Enablement Specialist Vocational instructor

Location: Northampton

Salary: From £30,381 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, imaginative and resilient individual with a wide skill set around Craftsmanship as an effective therapeutic activity; delivering a robust and meaningful programme across a variety of clinical areas. You need to be effective in working autonomously, communicating with a wide range of people and motivated to support the development of the Recovery and Enabling Team. You will be delivering creative interventions using a variety of materials such as wood and have the mastery and know how of using a variety of hand and power tools to support the multiple interventions that can be offered. You will be guided by Occupational Therapy theory and principles; working with people with complex needs whereby interventions are personalised to promote health, wellbeing and occupational therapy outcomes.

You can achieve more at St Andrew’s Healthcare

St Andrew’s is a unique provider of specialist care in mental health and learning disability. We aspire to deliver truly world class, holistic services. Our independence means we can always put patients’ interests at the heart of decision making, while re-investing in frontline services. We are currently transforming the Charity to deliver ‘Value Based Healthcare’; ensuring our patients consistently get the best possible outcomes.

The Vocational team sits within the Allied Health Professionals department, consisting of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Dietetics and Speech and Language Therapy. The Vocational team currently offer a centralised service to the Northampton site and managed locally within the Occupational Therapy services. The wider Recovery and Enabling team currently consists of Music and Visual Arts Senior Technical Instructors with a workforce of 10 staff. We are looking to recruit one Senior Vocational Occupational Technical Instructor to embed the service further.

The Person and Role

You would be joining a highly motivated, knowledgeable and innovative team with a wide range of craftsmanship skills, and take responsibility for organising and delivering Light and Heavy craftsmanship interventions. Versatility, initiative and effective communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential, with the ability to develop good professional therapeutic relationships with individuals in our care and members of the ward teams.

As an employee of St Andrews Healthcare you will adopt an inclusive and ‘can do’ attitude in approaching your work and will demonstrate good understanding of employing creative activities to engage a diverse range of patients. You will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy and be actively engaged to develop creative opportunities for the patients in our care.

Continued professional development is encouraged, with access to a range of in-house CPD events. Further opportunities include networking opportunities with colleagues of the same and different grades within the service and the Charity.

Required Skills, qualifications and experience:

Essential:

• Evidence of technical and creative skills within one or more of the following:

Craftsmanship, Horticulture, delivering dementia specific interventions.

• Demonstrate behaviour that meets the RCOT professional standards.
• Effective and demonstrated use in IT skills.
• Effective record keeping.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance and demonstrate resilience.
• Ability to prioritise workload and time pressures in accordance with patient and service need.
• Proactive and use of one’s own initiative.

Desirable:

• Previous experience, transferrable skills and/ or evidence of further training in relevant field applying for; specifically managing environments and equipment.
• Experience of working in an inpatient or secure environment.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation in clinical area applying for.
• Confidence in using a variety of communication tools/ applications.
• Willingness to explore flexible working outside of Monday-Friday, 9-5pm.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Excellent professional and career development and training opportunities
• Relocation allowance (eligibility criteria applies)
• Pension and life assurance
• Sickness policy on par with the NHS
• 27 days annual leave, increasing further after service (excluding bank holidays)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• Free parking
• Paid DBS application
• Access to free vocational qualifications

If you have any questions regarding the post or want to arrange a visit please contact:

Jackie Branston, Head of Occupational Therapy, or telephone on