Occupational Therapist – Inpatient Stroke

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Brentwood

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus – Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Occupational Therapist:

• To manage a caseload of patients with stroke, taking a key worker role as indicated.
• To set and maintain a high standard of clinical practice, which is evidence based where possible, using standardised assessment and outcome measures, where appropriate.
• To complete a robust o To set person centred goals with patients and/or their carers and a treatment plan that supports this.
• To monitor, evaluate and review occupational therapy interventions within a multidisciplinary framework and to modify as necessary
• To have the ability, knowledge and skills required for moving and handling people in community environments.
• Page 2 of 7 To act as an advocate on behalf of patients and carers by adopting a person-centred approach to support meaningful participation in life roles within Mid Essex.
• To work with other members of the stroke rehabilitation team, reablement, and voluntary sector to provide intervention around discharge and for post discharge rehabilitation.
• To assist in and help co-ordinate the discharge planning, taking the lead role.
• To use knowledge of other multi-disciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure effective referral management and achieve best client care.
• To have a sound understanding of occupational therapy, Royal College of Physicians and NICE clinical guidelines for stroke care.
• To have a good understanding of neuro-anatomy, the clinical presentations of stroke and how they can impact on cognition and function.
• To work with the ESD Coordinator and all the disciplines working in the team, to develop flexible interdisciplinary/multi-agency work practices which enhance outcomes for clients.
• To actively be involved in service development with support and guidance from the ESD Coordinator.
• To meet HCPC standards of Proficiency for occupational therapy To keep up to date with current knowledge and advances in occupational therapy practice in stroke rehabilitation, and be responsible for own CPD in line with HCPC registration.
• To contribute to and participate in the stroke in service training programme
• To provide supervision, annual appraisal and monitoring the work of junior staff, therapy assistants and students with support from senior staff.
• To ensure client and service records are recorded and maintained on IT databases and that client documentation is according to trust and local policies.
• To provide statistics and other information as required by the service. To comply with all policies and procedures and the Health & Safety at Work Act.
• To understand and apply National Guidelines and legislation relating to occupational therapy practice.
• To maintain and develop specific departmental duties as designated by the team lead. To undertake any other duties that may be allocated.

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC

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This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by CONSULTANT; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.