Highly Specialist Rotational Neurological Occupational Therapist

Job overview

At Bart’s Health our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals and services, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly specialist rotational Occupational Therapist with an interest and experience in neurology to join the neuro and trauma team. You will be part of a large, friendly, and dynamic multidisciplinary team, based at Royal London Hospital, delivering evidence based occupational therapy to a multi diverse population.

This post is part of our Band 7 Neuro rotation comprising of Neurosciences (including neurotrauma, neurosurgery, neurology,), and our hyper acute rehabilitation service known as RAAR (Rapid Access to Acute Rehabilitation).

The ideal candidate will have a passion for Neuro Occupational Therapy, excellent communication skills, plenty of initiative and enthusiasm, and with the ability to work autonomously and as a part of a wider MDT.

Within Bart’s Health, we offer a robust teaching and training programme with the opportunity to complete quality improvement and audit projects and we provide a supportive and engaging environment to develop and grow our therapists. You will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through supporting and supervising occupational therapists and support workers.

Main duties of the job

• To play a major and specialist role in the advanced assessment, treatment and clinical management of patients with a range of traumatic musculoskeletal and neurological injuries, determining the clinical diagnosis, functional deficits and occupational therapy treatment program required.
• To be dynamic in developing efficient and effective OT working processes to assist in producing a fully multi-professional team approach
• To work with the Clinical Lead Therapists to develop the service to best meet changing health and social care agendas
• The post holder is responsible for a team of staff in their clinical area and may be required to work in more than one speciality area.
• The post holder will rotate approximately every 18 months.
• Speciality areas include: Neurotrauma, neurosurgery and neurology, and rapid access to acute rehabilitation (RAAR).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.