Specialist Occupational Therapist

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Main area Adult Community Physical Health Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 148-CPH

Site Memorial Hospital Town Woolwich Salary £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 14/07/:59

Job overview

Greenwich Community Neurorehabilitation Team is looking to appoint a motivated and committed Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist, with a keen interest and proven experience of working with adults with neurological conditions. Ideally you will be an existing B6 OT wanting to further develop your specialist skills in neurology and community working. However we also welcome applications from experienced Band 5's looking for your first B6 post.

You will be part of a busy community multidisciplinary Neuro-Rehabilitation Team in the London Borough of Greenwich, working 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri). You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management. The team provides a service in clients' own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in-service training. In exchange for your professional skills, passion and commitment to patient centred care, we offer you a supportive, friendly team where you will be listened to, feel valued and be developed as a Band 6.

Main duties of the job

With support and training from the 8a Clinical Specialist and Highly Specialist Band 7 OT, you will provide specialist neurological OT assessment and treatment to clients presenting with highly complex neurological conditions including; Stroke, MND, MS, Head Injury, and Parkinson's.

The service encourages continued professional development, with in-service training within the Neurorehabilitation team and quarterly professional peer supervision with all Greenwich Neuro OT's. This post also offers the opportunity to develop supervisory skills, by being responsible for a Band 5 OT, therapy assistants and student OTs as required. You will have the opportunity to work closely with other colleagues in the South East London sector and be part of our teams development in line with the Neuro Core offer.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist occupational therapy input to clients as part of the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service.
• To work with specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners to manage those with neurology long term conditions.
• To supervise Band 5 occupational therapists/ therapy assistants and occupational therapy students.
• To be responsible and accountable for assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of conditions including complex cases, in the community as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients.
• To be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge levels and skills in neurology conditions and interventions.
• To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients, often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses.
• To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users.
• To monitor, review and continually re-assess clients complex care plans and objectives against outcomes measures in order to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals.

Person specification Education

• Degree / Masters in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Leadership training
• Specialist training in therapeutic work with people with neurological conditions.

Experience

• Experience of working with clients in a community setting
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Evidence of MDT working
• Experience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management
• Experience organising and delivering therapy in group settings
• Experience of using relevant outcome measure
• Experience of supervising assistants and students
• Specialist training in therapeutic work with people with neurological conditions.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
• Knowledge of specific patient conditions acquired through training and experience
• Knowledge and experience of a range of treatment approaches
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• To perform clinical skills in assessment and/or diagnosis and/or treatment
• Reflective abilities
• Specialist training in therapeutic work with people with neurological conditions.

Other

• Drivers licence
• Car owner/ access to vehicle for work

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

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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.

Application numbers

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