Senior Occupational Therapist in Stroke and Neurology (Stroke)

Job overview

Due to maternity leave within the team, an exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Stroke and Neuro Occupational Therapy Team.

Working as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team, you will provide a high standard of occupational therapy input to patients with a variety of neurological and complex conditions.

Our service is committed to providing a 7 day service for our patients. Our team leads design the rotas in collaboration with staff to ensure that a fair and flexible approach in allocating shifts is applied.

You will have the opportunity to gain experience in:

• Hyper-acute Stroke Care
• Acute Stroke
• Neurological Outliers

Experience as a Band 5 in Stroke or Neurology is essential. You will be supported in this role by a strong multidisciplinary team and work in close collaboration with a friendly and innovative therapies department. Supervising junior members of the team is included within this role therefore prior experience is needed.

Internal Applicants: Please ensure you speak to your Line Manager before applying for this secondment opportunity and visit the Trust's Secondment Policy.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To undertake a comprehensive holistic assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies.
• To deliver appropriate individual evidence based occupational therapy treatment programme for all patients, including patients with complex presentations.
• To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans.
• To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• To have a good working knowledge of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and follow-up rehabilitation and treatment services. To work as an effective member of the MDT and make appropriate and timely referrals to MDT colleagues.
• To liaise effectively with MDT members to formulate holistic, integrated plans of treatment.
• To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive written patient assessment and treatment records and any other documentation required, in line with professional and Trust standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidenced-based practice in the areas of rehabilitation and neurology, developing specialist knowledge.
• To design, develop and undertake an evidence-based project as agreed with the specialist occupational therapist within the rehabilitation and neurology team and develop improvements to service delivery and clinical practice. Make recommendations for change to the specialist occupational therapist.
• To participate in the staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development programmes to meet knowledge requirements and competencies.
• To respect the individuality, values, culture and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of the service sensitive to these needs
• To demonstrate ongoing personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities and maintain a portfolio which reflects personal development.
• To appraise delegated section staff to ensure all section staff have a current PDP and appraisal objectives and facilitate the successful completion of these

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.