Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People
Unlock Your Potential as an Occupational Therapist!
Ready to elevate your neurorehabilitation skills? Join our friendly, experienced, and dynamic team where your growth is our priority!
Main Duties of the Job
In this role as an Occupational Therapist Band 5, you will have the chance to:
1. Transform Lives: Provide neurorehabilitation to clients with brain injuries, strokes, and other neurological conditions.
2. Collaborate and Lead: Work within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, managing your own caseload and shaping personalized treatment plans.
3. Hands-On Experience: Assess, plan, and deliver OT treatments both in the Centre and in the community, with opportunities for home visits and liaising with key stakeholders.
4. Enhance Your Skills: Develop expertise in communicating with clients facing a range of physical, cognitive, and communication challenges.
Note: This role requires satisfactory pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS.
Job Responsibilities
1. Manage and prioritise your own neurological clinical caseload with guidance and support from your clinical supervisor and wider Occupational Therapy team.
2. Work with clients in both individual and group settings addressing their goals, using functional and impairment-based treatment methods.
3. Plan and carry out individual Occupational Therapy treatment programmes which reflect the clients' goals in both the Rehab Centre and where appropriate in the community.
4. Evaluate treatment and use reflective practice within supervision to improve client care and modify as required.
5. Develop knowledge and application of risk assessment including carrying out intervention within the community.
6. Carry out access and home visits with senior clinical support, including liaising with social services and care agencies.
7. Liaise with external agencies to assess for and arrange provision of appropriate equipment and adaptations.
8. Attend and contribute to client case reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings.
9. Develop skills in communicating with clients with a range of challenges.
10. Provide feedback and advice to care staff and other members of the multi-disciplinary team regarding assessment and treatment.
11. Make referrals to other agencies as required/appropriate.
12. Be trained in key worker responsibilities for clients including organizing regular goal-setting meetings.
13. Participate in in-service training programmes including feedback on courses attended.
14. Review and reflect on your own practice and performance through effective use of professional supervision and appraisal.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in neurology, either as a student placement or post-graduate.
Qualifications
* Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy.
* Membership of Health Professionals council.
* Membership of BAOT.
* Membership of neurological specialist section (SSNP).
* Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/continual professional development.
Knowledge and Skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills including use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
* Knowledge of national clinical guidelines in relation to stroke and head injury.
* Ability to use initiative to prioritise caseload and make sound decisions.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People
£28,407 to £34,581 a year plus excellent benefits.
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