Occupational Therapist – Neuro

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 5/6/7 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Cambridge and or Peterborough

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £24 – £35 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 assess, plan and develop specialist occupational therapy programmes for patients under care of the Early Supported Discharge Team. This will involve working in a range of ward and community settings. This will include lone working within the community with access to Advanced Practitioners and MDT when required.
• To provide a high standard of occupational therapy.
• To perform advanced occupational therapy assessment of stroke patients and to deliver an individual treatment programme.
• To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working unsupervised.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the multi-professional team.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of Advanced Practitioners / MDT.
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions relating to their physical, functional and psychological needs.
• Provide appropriate equipment and rehabilitation programmes, and make referrals on to other professionals and agencies as appropriate in order to meet the identified needs.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• To allocate work to non-registered staff.
• Provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff and students.
• To build up and maintain key relationships with referring services and an understanding of the roles within the Integrated Early Supported Discharge and Community Neuro teams.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.
• To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.

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.