Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Band 8A to join our Rehabilitation services team. You will provide occupational therapy clinical expertise to children and young people with acquired brain injury and neurodisability accessing inpatient neurorehabilitation, long term disability management placements and short breaks. Our service aims to promote outcome focussed interventions, safe therapy and care, function, and participation, of children and young people accessing home, school, and community life.
Key Responsibilities
You will provide high quality advanced practical and theoretical knowledge, evidence-based teaching, consultation, assessment, treatment planning and interventions. You will provide an expert level of occupational therapy leadership to the rehabilitation occupational therapy team, offering supervision and clinical support to drive quality and effectiveness of service delivery. You will work collaboratively across the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring all children receive personalised, intensive, and high-quality occupational therapy interventions.
You will work closely with the community rehabilitation team to support flexible delivery of provision across inpatient and outpatient services. You will carry your own specialist caseload and you will lead on clinical audit, quality improvement and research. There will be an opportunity to further develop an area of occupational therapy clinical expertise in childrens rehabilitation, with the organisation offering CPD and training opportunities.
About the Organisation
The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.
Benefits
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.
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