Join the team at Gregory House in Workington as an Occupation and Wellbeing Associate and establish, deliver and coordinate programmes and activities focused on self-care, leisure and day-to-day life skills to support service users build a brighter future.
You will be working 40 hours a week at Gregory House, a service for adults with mild and moderate-to-severe Learning Disability/Autism with Mental Health needs.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

Supporting the Occupational Therapy team, you will assist in developing links with the local community to support service users engage in community-based activities, which will develop skills and routines that promote positive physical and mental wellbeing.
You will create individual rapports with service users within a 1-to-1 and group setting as you use your technical and creative skills to assist in providing a person-centred programme through therapeutic interventions. You will prepare, risk assess and implement a range of activities as well as contribute to gathering assessment information.
At Gregory House, a range of CPD and training opportunities are available that can see your career grow and you achieve your aspirations.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:

• A care certificate or the willingness to undertake a similar qualification
• The ability to motivate and engage service users
• The ability to build and maintain therapeutic relationships
• To deliver to groups and 1-1 enrichment activities
• To ideally hold a Full UK Driving Licence