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Bank Community Neurorehabilitation OT's
Spread your wings, Bexley Community Neurorehabilitation Team is looking to appoint a motivated and committed Specialist Occupational Therapists. Neuro experience is essential.
Ideally you will be an existing B6 OT wanting to further develop your specialist skills in neurology and community working. However we also welcome applications from experienced Band 5’s for potential consideration.
The team provides a service in clients’ own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in-service training. In exchange for your professional skills, passion and commitment to patient centred care, we offer you a supportive, friendly team where you will be listened to, feel valued and be developed as a specialist clinician. With support and training from the 8a Clinical Specialist and Highly Specialist Band 7 OT’s, you will provide specialist neurological OT assessment and treatment to clients presenting with highly complex neurological conditions including Stroke, MND, MS, Head Injury, and Parkinson’s. It is essential that you hold a full UK driving license and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes.
Previous applicants need not apply
This is a Bank role and work is on an as and when required basis
You will be part of a busy community multidisciplinary Neuro-Rehabilitation team in the London Borough of Bexley, working from home and flexible working is supported by the trust.
The service encourages continued professional development, with in-service training within the team and you will have the opportunity to work closely with other colleagues in the South East London sector.
You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem-solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management
Main duties
* To provide specialist occupational therapy input to clients as part of the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service.
* To work with specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners to manage those with neurology long term conditions.
* To supervise Band 5 occupational therapists/ therapy assistants and occupational therapy students.
* To be responsible and accountable for assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of conditions including complex cases, in the community as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients.
* To be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge levels and skills in neurology conditions and interventions.
* To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients, often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information.
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 and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
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 and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sofie Edser Job title: Transformation & Operational Team Manager Email address: sofie.edser@nhs.net
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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