Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist - Neuro

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist to work in Birmingham on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist job is £46,148 - £52,809 per annum.

Benefits of the role:

• A competitive salary of £46,148 - £52,809 per annum DOE
• 38 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Group life assurance
• Company Pension
• Eye voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards
• Free parking
• Nationwide employee staff discounts incl. eating out and shopping
• Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store

Main duties:

• Work 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.
• Liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users
• 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.
• Accept professional accountability and responsibility.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
• 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.
• Address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
• 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.
• Delegate tasks appropriately according to the competence of colleagues and take responsibility for handover, monitoring and review.

Requirements of the Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist:

• A diploma or a degree in occupational therapy and registered with HCPC
• The ability to work as an autonomous therapist with experience in neurological rehabilitation
• Ability to prioritise and manage a complex caseload
• Excellent communication and report writing skills
• Ability to formulate complex risk assessments
• Experience supervising and training others
• A valid UK driving licence

Contact:

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

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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 your work placement.

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