Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity for someone to join the Community Neurological Rehabilitation Service (CNRS) and broaden their skills in neurological rehabilitation and leadership, in a well established multi-disciplinary team. The CNRS mission is to enable people to live well with their neurological condition by providing specialist, person-centred, multidisciplinary rehabilitation. As part of the team you will access excellent opportunities for learning and development, and have the opportunity to collaborate with a range of different professions both in our team and other services providing neurological rehabilitation in the community. Our team values are:
1.Inclusive
2.Compassionate
3.Collaborative
4.Knowledgeable
5.Reliable
If you hold the same values and are interested in this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
1. To take a lead role in planning, co-ordinating and delivering the occupational therapy service provided to clients as part of the inter-disciplinary team.
2. To provide highly specialised occupational therapy (assessment and treatment) to a wide range of patients with complex physical and cognitive deficits resulting from neurological impairment.
3. Working with the head of service and other senior therapists, to take a lead role, as required, in the overall organisation and functioning of the community neuro-rehabilitation service (for example, contributing to specific project work and working parties relevant to neuro-rehabilitation)
4. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to registered and unregistered qualified staff as required.
5. To act as a clinical expert and educator for the service and occupational therapy students. Provide teaching sessions, evaluate performance and carrying out any formal assessments required by the educational institution.
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
Special Circumstances
Essential criteria
6. Valid UK driving license - ability to travel in the community and between sites as service need dictates
Qualifications
Essential criteria
7. HCPC registered Occupational Therapist
8. Substantial post graduate training in relevant specialism
Desirable criteria
9. Post graduate study at Masters level
Experience
Essential criteria
10. Extensive clinical expertise including significant experience in neurological rehabilitation
11. Extensive experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
12. Previous experience of administering, interpreting and evaluating standardised and non-standardised assessments relevant to the speciality
13. Experience leading family meeting/case conferences
14. Experience supervising registered and unregistered staff, and students
15. Experience providing training/teaching
16. Experience contributing to/leading service development and clinical audit
Desirable criteria
17. A broad understanding of operational and strategic planning
Skills
Essential criteria
18. Comprehensive IT skills using a range of common platforms/software.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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