Occupational Therapist – Early Supported Discharge Team

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: Rochford, Essex

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £25 – £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 be responsible for the planning and delivery of high quality stroke specific occupational therapy within the Early supported discharge team and other community stroke services as required
• To manage a caseload of clients being discharged home from hospital early, coordinating the discharge and providing high quality stroke specific assessment, and implementation of treatment plans.
• To work effectively and flexibly within an interdisciplinary framework to provide integrated stroke rehabilitation care programmes for patients on the community stroke pathway within ESD (and CICC as required) for rehabilitation assistants to carry out.
• To provide input in to planning, development and evaluation of clinical services within the ESD Team and community stroke services, holding responsibility for defined projects as required.
• To be responsible for the planning and delivery of stroke specialist occupational therapy within a defined area of our ESD team, prioritising clinical needs to provide an effective service.
• To work with a caseload of patients with a stroke diagnosis varying in complexity with regards to their rehabilitation, health and social needs.
• To independently carry out stroke specific rehabilitation programmes aimed at improving or maintaining independence during the defined time therapy frame.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify stroke specific interventions in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness.
• To assess and order equipment as identified by patient need.
• To ensure all equipment provision is fit for purpose and patient/team members are aware of the instructions for safe use.
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability from stroke and provide advice to users/carers as appropriate.
• To arrange/attend case conferences as appropriate to patient need.

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

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; 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.