Specialist Neurological Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic Neurological Occupational Therapist to work on the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit.

If you are an experienced band 5  or band 6 who has worked in neurology and is keen to work in neurorehabilitation, we would love to consider you for the post. We have a strong reputation for growing our own excellent OT's and uphold the values of OT in the Trust.

The RNRU is a level 1b unit in London supporting patients with complex cognitive and/or complex physical disability. Our specialist  team consists of nurses and consultants; and a neuro AHP consultant leads our therapy team of OT's, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, neuropsychology, social work, a leisure coordinator and therapy assistants.  We work cohesively to provide a high quality, goal focused, patient centred rehabilitation for our patients.

We will support you to develop your neurological expertise through joint sessions, training, engagement in strategic objectives and operational leadership. You will benefit from peer support, as well as supervision and clinical support . You will share your expertise through student education, delivering teaching programmes, and contributing to service development activities and quality improvement work. There are excellent opportunities for CPD, including internal and external training.

Main duties of the job

Provide Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment of complex neurologically impaired patients within a goal-orientated framework.

Provide clinical supervision and appraisal for Band 5 occupational therapists, therapy assistants and students.

Participate in on going service development, including in-service training and professional development.

Take the lead and contribute to service developments in line with local, regional and national policy directives.

The post holder will be working in a challenging socioeconomic environment involving patients who have highly complex social problems and those from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Act as a key-worker and advocate where appropriate for a number of the caseload; carrying out case management duties and facilitating the active participation of patients with complex disability in making decisions about their rehabilitation and care.

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 on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.