Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist - Leeds
Job Description
Posted Friday 25 July 2025 at 00:00
Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist
Osman House
Hours: 28 hours. Flexible working hours available.
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of peoplewith brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you’ll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
The Role:
To work as part of a multi/ interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the BIRT Neurobehavioral model to service users with acquired brain injury (ABI) and to lead on OT provision within the service. To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users.
Your responsibilities will include:
* To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with highly developed skills and knowledge in neurological rehabilitation, potentially as the sole clinician but with supervision (which may be remote) of a more senior OT. To accept professional accountability and responsibility.
* To manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
* To 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.
* To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
* To 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.
To work with service users, family/carers and outside agencies in a sensitive and flexible way considering the most appropriate environment for assessment and intervention and responding to changing needs, circumstances and cultural issues. To maintain the highest levels of integrity during all communications.
About you:
What are we looking for?
* The successful applicant will have a Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
* Registered with the HCPC
* Specialist knowledge of OT interventions in ABI e.g. cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation.
* Experience of working with service users with neurological deficits or acquired brain injury. 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).
* Valid UK Driving licence and willingness to drive service users
in unit vehicles.
Rewards:
* A competitive salary of between £47,810 - £54,710 FTE DOE
* 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
* Free parking
* Company Pension
* Long Service and Staff Awards
All clinical roles have CPD opportunities and we may support further professional development
**We will consider applications from candidates who require sponsorship.
If this position sounds of interest to you, apply today by clickingApply Nowbutton.
Please note: we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible.
*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It’s a place where we recognise, celebrate and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.
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