Specialist Occupational Therapist, Neuro Rotation

Job overview

Come and join our Band 6 Occupational Therapy neuro rotation! This is a full time, permanent post. The rotation offers an exciting range of clinical areas to gain a broad range of experience and learn new skills. The rotation includes in patient stroke rehabilitation, regional specialist neurology and neurosurgical wards, neuro out patient rehabilitation, Reablement team, and the National Rehabilitation Centre. See the website for details about the newly opened National Rehabilitation centre www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk.

This post provides the opportunity to have a positive impact on people's lives through being part of their rehabilitation journey. You will be well supported by teams of experienced and knowledgeable clinicians.

The successful candidate will have excellent core occupational therapy clinical skills, previous experience in stroke/neuro, as well as a wide range of clinical experience through other specialities. You will demonstrate a high level of communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.

You will receive support and training opportunities for you to develop in this role to reach your full potential. This will include peer and senior support, regular supervision (1:1 and group), in-house and external training, as well as varied opportunities to engage in wider learning experiences.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will provide occupational therapy for a caseload of patients requiring neurological rehabilitation. You will work creatively and collaboratively with the MDT, patients and their families, as well as external agencies. You will work with the occupational therapy and wider multidisciplinary team to ensure effective service delivery, supporting staff and actively developing the service.

There will be a requirement to contribute to planned weekend and bank holiday rotas.

The successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to work flexibly to support the needs of the service as well as other services in the neuro pathway. Candidates will need to hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle in order to be able to complete community/domiciliary visits within the out patient and Reablement teams.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In addition to the summary below, please familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert. You will be required to:

Hold responsibility for your own caseload of patients requiring complex rehabilitation, working without direct supervision.

Contribute to the supervision and education of rotational occupational therapists, student occupational therapists, occupational therapy support staff and generic rehabilitation assistants.

Be professional and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.

Undertake specialist assessments of patients with diverse or complex presentations and multi-pathologies using specialist analysis, clinical reasoning skills, manual assessment techniques and listening skills to receive complex and sensitive details from patients to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.

Formulate and deliver specialised occupational therapy treatment programmes based on specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, analysis and reasoning skills and knowledge of a range of treatment options

Be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change.

Communicate complex patient-related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health and social care sectors to ensure delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service and assist in developing comprehensive discharge plans.

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.