Band 6 Occupational Therapist Community Neuro and Stroke Service
We are seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Community Neuro and Stroke Service on a part-time basis.
You will deliver specialist person-centred assessments, rehabilitation, and management for individuals with long-term neurological conditions.
The Community Neuro and Stroke Service Planned Neuro Team offers specialised rehabilitation and therapy support for adults with complex long-term neurological conditions within the community.
You will collaborate closely with our multidisciplinary team family members carers and other services to work towards achieving person-centred goals fostering independence and enhancing overall wellbeing.
Main Responsibilities
* Conduct specialist assessments to create individualised treatment plans.
* Collaborate effectively with the multidisciplinary team.
* Work with service users and carers to achieve shared goals providing advice education training and assessing for specialised equipment.
* Promote independence by enabling service users and carers to manage their condition.
* Assess and prescribe 24-hour postural management programs offering specialist support and advice to other services.
* Support and supervise junior team members and students and assist senior staff in the day-to-day running of the service including deputising when necessary.
The Ideal Candidate
* Holds a recognised qualification in Occupational Therapy and is registered with HCPC.
* Demonstrates strong interdisciplinary collaboration promoting efficient person-centered care.
* Has experience working effectively within a multidisciplinary team and with health social care and voluntary sector partners.
* Possesses expert clinical knowledge and experience in neurological conditions with a deep understanding of their long-term impact.
* Experienced in community-based work across various settings.
* Capable of managing a caseload effectively including appropriate delegation to Rehabilitation Assistants.
* This role is community based and therefore you must have a valid UK driving licence and your own transport to enable you to travel to appointments across Bath and North East Somerset.
Package Description
As an Occupational Therapist within our Community Neuro and Stroke service you'll be part of our valued team at St Martin's Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* £35 392 - £42 618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
* Free tea and coffee at your base location.
* Membership of My Reward Hub giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support legal debt and life management help as well career coaching and counselling.
* Access to eLearning bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team The Learning Enterprise.
* An open just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100 000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience efficiency and improved outcomes.
We deliver and transform adult and children community health services primary care services including urgent care sexual health dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.
Across England we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year guided by our simple values we care we think we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad diverse range of people who want to join our team.
We're a Disability Confident Committed company so we work to provide facilities work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here if you're keen to join our team we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
Safeguarding and protecting the children young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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Job Details
* Salary £37 338 - £44 962
* Frequency Annual
* Job Reference HCRGCG TP 2522913925
* Contract Type Permanent Part Time
* Closing Date 16 February 2025
* Job Category HCRG Allied Health Professionals
* Business Unit HCRG Bath and North East Somerset
* Location St Martins Hospital United Kingdom
* Posted on 31 January 2025