Specialist Occupational Therapist – Adults

Job overview

The Occupational Therapists within Broadfield Unit (Rehabilitation Medicine) deliver care and rehabilitation over a 5 day service model, with potential to expand to a 7 day model in the future.  The team focuses on ensuring the service users are supported physically, cognitively and emotionally within a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model using Occupational Therapy client centred practice.  Our service provides specialist inpatient neuro-rehabilitation with a catchment area that includes but not limited to Cheshire, Staffordshire, Telford, Shropshire and Wales.

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will be working as part of a specialist inter-disciplinary team where you will need to work alongside all disciplines with a proactive approach to service users’ recovery, demonstrate excellent communication skills and embedding quality at its core.  Under the direction of an Advanced Occupational Therapist; you will be involved in the assessment, implementation and evaluation of SMART goals to ensure service users under your care are provided with a collaborative, effective and evidence based service to facilitate specialist rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and team working.
• Be a Specialist Occupational Therapist and have a detailed professional and clinical knowledge. The post holder will be a specialist practitioner in a static post on the Broadfield unit.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users within the service area.
• Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Be a key member of the MDT actively participating/supporting colleagues and chairing MDT meetings, case conference, goal planning and discharge planning meetings.
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems seeking innovation and service development as core elements to role.
• Work with the Clinical Leads / Management undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
• To undertake 7 day working / shift patterns within service specification as required across Trust sites including community working and lone working.
• Access to own vehicle, UK driving licence and ability to travel across a wide geographical area.