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Medical Protection Advertisement

Location
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Profession
Occupational Therapist
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
24 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Fixed term: 9 months (15th September 2025 - 5th June 2026)
Posted Date
09 Jul 2025

Job overview

This is an exciting post within the Specialist Rehabilitation Services working within the Parkinson’s Disease Service and offer an integrated Rapid response team, working closely with the other profession within the team.

To improve care for people with Parkinson’s in Derbyshire and surrounding areas by reducing admissions, especially falls, reducing length of stays and offer in-reach to inpatient wards, urgent outpatient appointments or home visits.

To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to meet both Trust and national targets and standards.

To provide leadership, specialist advice and interventions as part of the neurological rehabilitation services, working as a key member of a wider multidisciplinary team for outpatients.  This will involve working flexibly throughout the Trust and potential for working within a seven day therapy service in the future.

To provide supervision and teaching for junior and inexperienced Therapists, support staff and students working within the team and offer on-going education, advice and support to our MDT colleagues.

Main duties of the job

To use specialist skills to perform advanced assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive, psychological and social needs.

To develop and deliver individualised treatment programme to patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.

To hold responsibility for own caseload, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular reflective and clinical reasoning sessions

To delegate work to Junior and support staff.

To work closely and communicate clearly with colleagues working in the Rapid response team.

To be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, liaising and working with other Trust staff in the management of the patients’ care appropriate to the service area.

To liaise with other MDT colleagues to provide a flexible service during pressure times, due to workload or staffing difficulties.

To work and liaise with external agencies as required.

To undertake routine administrative tasks as agreed with senior staff.

Closing date - 24 July 2025

Interview date - 07 August 2025

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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