Senior Occupational Therapist - Lancashire
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly enthusiastic about the jobs they do; you will find a dedicated team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Main duties of the job
Main Responsibilities
* To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of service users in their care, ensuring high standards of clinical care for the service users under your management and supporting others to do likewise.
* To undertake comprehensive assessment of service users, using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised rehabilitation and treatment plans.
* To promote choice in all aspects of clinical practice, reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the service users' experience and enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by service users and their representatives.
* To liaise and communicate with other health and social care professionals and volunteers in the planning and delivery of occupational therapy.
* To ensure appropriate provision and maintenance of equipment within available resources.
* To ensure that up-to-date written and electronic records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Brainkind standards, and that sensitive information is held securely.
* To demonstrate clinical leadership and promote clinical supervision.
* To share knowledge and expertise with other staff through formal and informal teaching.
* To be responsible for raising the awareness of the team regarding clinical governance and clinical risk issues and for implementing clinical governance policies, standards, and guidelines.
* Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally take on reasonable additional tasks.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Diploma/BSC in Occupational Therapy.
* Current and valid Registration with Health & Care Professions Council.
* Relevant postgraduate training in appropriate speciality.
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
* Experience of working in a relevant setting.
* Demonstrable experience of using evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
* Skilled knowledge and application of therapy assessments and interventions using complex level clinical reasoning.
* An ability to work autonomously and to set own and others' priorities.
* An ability to confidently assess and manage risk in relation to occupational performance.
* An ability to organise, coordinate and respond efficiently to complex information.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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.
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