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We have an exciting opportunity for a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our growing multidisciplinary specialist Community Neurorehabilitation Service. This post offers the opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership skills, as you will be a deputy to the part‑time clinical specialist. You will be responsible for supervision of the team as well as having a key role in promoting evidence based practice and service development. We are an innovative team who are passionate about the specialist service we provide, offering skilled development in both stroke and long‑term conditions.
Qualifications
* Experience of working with an adult client group in neurological rehabilitation at a senior level.
* Confident autonomous practitioner with high level leadership and communication skills.
* Flexible problem‑solving approach and good clinical reasoning skills.
* Efficient in time and people management.
* Full UK driving licence and preferably access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes (Oxleas offers a Lease Car Scheme to all substantive employees).
Responsibilities
* Provide advanced specialist Occupational Therapy input to clients as part of the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service.
* Provide clinical leadership in partnership with the Principal OT into the day‑to‑day delivery of Occupational Therapy in the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice and supervision/support of junior staff and students.
* Support the Team Manager – Specialist Community Neurorehabilitation in establishing and monitoring a robust clinical governance framework.
* Provide service to clients in the place most suited to their current need (home, day centre, place of work etc.) and in our own small outpatient gym.
* Monitor, review and continually re‑assess clients with complex care plans and objectives, facilitating modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals.
* Carry out clinical risk assessment and complete risk management plans relevant to the clinical group.
* Engage in joint patient assessment/treatment with more junior staff as required.
* Work in a coordinated manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care.
* Provide advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and identified need.
* Provide highly specialist advice & second opinions to more junior colleagues/others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with physical difficulties.
* Maintain up‑to‑date clinical written records and electronic database in accordance with local and professional standards.
* Write comprehensive discharge and progress reports to medical referrers.
* Triage referrals into the service to ensure waiting time for assessment is met, and allocate to appropriate skilled staff.
* Assess for and arrange provision of rehabilitative equipment as required by client.
* Identify and manage where appropriate the mental/emotional health of the client.
* Ensure the vocational/occupational needs of the client are effectively addressed in treatment/rehabilitation as appropriate.
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, voluntary sector and provider collaboratives.
Locations and Services
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.
Values & Purpose
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
* To be able to work alone in the community in a variety of settings, independent of multidisciplinary support whilst in direct contact with clients and their carers
* To be responsible and accountable for occupational therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of highly complex neurological conditions including stroke, as an autonomous practitioner and in partnership with the client/carer
* Utilise effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual specialist rehabilitation management care plans which address the client’s goals and clinical need.
* Use a range of highly specialist clinical assessments and skills to ensure effective treatment
* To monitor, review and continually re‑assess clients with complex care plans and objectives, and facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals
* To carry out clinical risk assessment and complete risk management plans relevant to the clinical group
* To engage in joint patient assessment/ treatment with more junior staff as need dictates
* To work in a co‑ordinated manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care
* To provide advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and identified need
* To provide highly specialist advice & second opinions to more junior colleagues/others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with physical difficulties
* To maintain up‑to‑date clinical written records and electronic database in accordance with local and professional standards
* To write comprehensive discharge and progress reports to medical referrers.
* Triage referrals into the service to ensure the waiting time for assessment is met, and allocation to appropriate skilled staff.
* To assess for and arrange provision of rehabilitative equipment as required by client.
* To identify and manage where appropriate the mental / emotion health of the client
* To ensure the vocational / occupational needs of the client are effectively addressed in treatment/rehabilitation as appropriate
This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026
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