Job Title | Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist |
Location | Blackheath |
Job Type | Permanent |
Speciality | Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist |
Rates | £50,653 to £53,134 per annum |
Description
We have a wonderful opportunity for a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist (experience equivalent to Band 7) to join our fantastic team.
Responsibilities:-
- Deputise for Lead Occupational Therapist when required and be a focal point of the team within the Blackheath community.
- Drive and participate in Band 7 peer supervision approaches.
- Communicate responsibly, professionally and in an exemplary manner, reflecting your position as a senior member of the multidisciplinary team.
- Supervise junior members of staff such as Band 6 therapists, assistants, and students.
- Be innovative in your approach to supervision, developing your leadership style.
- Complete comprehensive occupation-based and occupation-focused assessment of patients.
- Play a key role in planning safe and timeous discharges.
- Prescribe and provide equipment for our patients during their rehabilitation journey.
- Carry out robust risk-assessments and develop and update- subsequent care plans.
- Complete community assessments and interventions with patients, including home access and home visits to guide the discharge pathway.
- Assist the MDT in diagnosis, problem formulation and planning of rehabilitation programmes.
- Develop, carry out, and generalise safe, innovative, evidence-based treatments, underpinned by the principles of neuroplasticity and motor re-learning.
- Communicate your approaches effectively with the MDT to ensure interdisciplinary buy-in and implementation of ideas.
- Supervise junior staff including assistants and students.
- Demonstrate and develop your skills as a reflective practitioner.