Job Description
Are you an Occupational Therapist who wants a new challenge in your career? Join our multi-disciplinary team as an Occupational Therapist to provide occupational therapy input with the neurobehavioral model to patients with acquired brain injury.
Why Minerva?
As one of the UK’s leading healthcare providers, we support NHS Trusts, Schools, Prisons, Nursing Homes, Private Hospitals, Mental Health Organisations with good quality healthcare staff and have fantastic testimonials from our clients who have worked with us.
Benefits
* 38 days annual leave (inclusion of bank holidays)
* Plus 5% location allowance.
* Competitive salary.
* Golden Hello Bonus.
* QiCN Sponsorship and supervision.
* Excellent training and support.
* Company Pension.
* Free parking.
* Nationwide employee staff discounts.
* Blue Light Card.
Who we are looking for:
* Diploma / BSC (Hons) in Occupational Therapy
* •Current and valid Registration with Health & Care Professions Council
* •Evidence of Continued Professional Development
* •Knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions using clinical reasoning
* •An ability to work autonomously and to set own and support others’ priorities
* •An ability to confidently assess and manage risk in relation to occupational performance
* •An ability to organise, co-ordinate and respond efficiently to complex information
* •Competent IT skills
* •Knowledge of relevant legislation and its impact on current practice
* •Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* •Ability to build effective working relationships
* •Desirable experience of working in a relevant setting, which can include practice placements
About the role:
We are seeking an Occupational Therapist to join our team. The successful candidate will:
To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with highly developed skills and knowledge in neurological rehabilitation, potentially as the sole clinician but with supervision (which may be remote) of a more senior OT. To accept professional accountability and responsibility.
* • To manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
* • To complete the OT process and to use evidence based/service user centred principles and clinical reasoning to assess, formulate a treatment plan, implement and evaluate interventions bringing specialist knowledge to more complex cases.
* • To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
* • To develop programmes of care, ensure adequate and detailed handover of programmes to rehabilitation support workers or therapy assistants, monitor through data gathering, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention according to the neurobehavioural model.
* • To delegate tasks appropriately according to the competence of colleagues and take responsibility for handover, monitoring and review.
* • To use highly developed interpersonal skills and empathy to engage those service users and families who may be resistant to the rehabilitation process or may be distressed.
* • To carry out detailed risk assessments including for more complex issues and ensure these are regularly reviewed and updated and communicate this with the team effectively.
* • To maintain detailed and accurate documentation in line with Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) guidance and produce professional reports demonstrating highly specialist knowledge.
* • To work with service users, family/carers and outside agencies in a sensitive and flexible way considering the most appropriate environment for assessment and intervention and responding to changing needs, circumstances and cultural issues. To maintain the highest levels of integrity during all communications.
* • To work as a member of the multi/inter-disciplinary team bringing specialist knowledge, actively listening, participating in meetings, engaging in shared decision making, contributing to overall treatment objectives agreed in the rehabilitation plan and working collaboratively to establish service user centred therapeutic goals that promote service user choices.
About the company:
You will be working for a leading charity helping people to thrive after a brain injury. They provide innovative rehabilitation and ongoing support to ensure life after a brain injury can be a life well-lived. They support people living with acquired brain injuries and other neurological conditions in the UK to access the best specialist rehabilitation available to achieve their goals and exceed expectations.