Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist
Permanent
28 hours per week - flexible working hours available.
Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 (FTE) per annum DOE
Located in Leeds
We are looking to recruit a Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist on a permanent basis for our private clients residential home in leeds.
The home supports people with an acquired brain injury who have already undergone intensive rehabilitation and who need specialist care and support in a residential setting.
Key Responsibilities:
* 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.
* 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.
Requirements:
* Degree in Occupational Therapy.
* Registered with the HCPC.
* Specialist knowledge of OT interventions in ABI e.g. cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation.
* Able to manage complex dysphagia within an adult neurology caseload.
* Minimum of 4 years post registration with at least 2 years experience working with neurological conditions (this may include experience as part of a mixed caseload or prequalification experience).
Benefits:
* 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) (pro rata)
* Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
* Health Cash Plan
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Excellent training and support
* Group life assurance
* Eye voucher scheme
* Free parking
* Company Pension
* Long Service and Staff Awards
If you are interested in this role, please contact Kaylah on or 01772954200 and put through your application .
*Referral Scheme*
If you are not interested in this role but know someone else who might be, don't forget that we offer up to £350 in vouchers if you refer a friend to us and we place them in the job. For more details, contact the office at Spencer Clarke Group on 01772 954200.
Kaylah is a specialist recruiter in Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy, working in partnership with several public and private sector clients nationwide, so if this one isn't for you, please still get in touch so that we can discuss more suitable roles!
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