Our client has a Senior Occupational Therapist permanent vacancy to work in their brain injury as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the BIRT Neurobehavioral model to service users with acquired brain injury (ABI) and to lead on OT provision within the service. To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users.
Job Details:
J800005657 Senior Occupational Therapist permanent Location: Birmingham Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum DOE Hours: Full Time Client Group: Brain Injury Sponsor available
Job Role:
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.
Use highly developed critical thinking skills when making professional judgements and communicate this process succinctly and effectively including in more complex or unpredictable contexts.
To support the clinical lead for some service users leading on maintaining contact with family and other outside agencies, co-ordinating the rehabilitation programme and facilitating the discharge planning process.
To assess for, issue and refer to outside agencies for appropriate equipment ensuring adequate training for staff, service user and family and with all risk assessments in place.
Manage a designated workload, identify priorities and manage time and resources effectively.
Act where performance and practice of self and others should be recognised, reported or improved. Act as a role model and take responsibility for monitoring quality in the work of others where tasks have been delegated, or a supervisory relationship is established.
To Qualify:
Occupational Therapist qualifications
HCPC Registered
Relevant Experience
Client offers:
Excellent Salary
Fantastic opportunity
Support
For a full JD please contact
parul.patel@justot.co.uk
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Job Details:
J800005657 Senior Occupational Therapist permanent Location: Birmingham Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum DOE Hours: Full Time Client Group: Brain Injury Sponsor available
Job Role:
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.
Use highly developed critical thinking skills when making professional judgements and communicate this process succinctly and effectively including in more complex or unpredictable contexts.
To support the clinical lead for some service users leading on maintaining contact with family and other outside agencies, co-ordinating the rehabilitation programme and facilitating the discharge planning process.
To assess for, issue and refer to outside agencies for appropriate equipment ensuring adequate training for staff, service user and family and with all risk assessments in place.
Manage a designated workload, identify priorities and manage time and resources effectively.
Act where performance and practice of self and others should be recognised, reported or improved. Act as a role model and take responsibility for monitoring quality in the work of others where tasks have been delegated, or a supervisory relationship is established.
To Qualify:
Occupational Therapist qualifications
HCPC Registered
Relevant Experience
Client offers:
Excellent Salary
Fantastic opportunity
Support
For a full JD please contact
parul.patel@justot.co.uk
#J-18808-Ljbffr
