Specialist Occupational Therapist - Horsham

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with support and supervision (which may be remote if appropriate) of a more senior OT for more complex cases. 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, with supervision from a more senior OT and regular support for more challenging service users and situations.

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 intervention, with supervision for more complex cases.

To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.

With the support and supervision from a more senior OT, 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.

With the support and supervision from a more senior OT, to use interpersonal skills and empathy to engage those service users and families who may be resistant to the rehabilitation process or may be distressed.

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 through all communications.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy .
• Registered with the HCPC.
• Practice placement qualification or willingness to undertake this qualification within the first year.

Desirable

• Member of RCOT and SSNP.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post registration experience including inpatient or community rehabilitation.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of working with service users with neurological deficits or acquired brain injury.
• Some experience of supervision of junior staff and students.
• Experience of working within an multi / inter disciplinary team.
• Experience of running goal directed therapeutic groups.
• Experience of specialist interventions used in neurological rehabilitation such as cognitive rehabilitation.

Skills & Abilities and Personal Attributes

Essential

• IT skills including the ability to open and send emails using Outlook, the ability to use Microsoft office and the ability to navigate the internet.
• An understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and an alignment to the Trusts values.
• Ability to reflect and initially appraise own performance.
• Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
• Ability to build effective relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Clear, effective verbal and written communication skills including: The ability to write grammatical reports, which are technically accurate and distinguish clearly between fact and opinion.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Valid UK Driving licence and willingness to drive service users in unit vehicles.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

The Disabilities Trust

Address

Brain Rehabilitation Unit

Five Oaks Road

Slinfold

Horsham

West Sussex

RH13 0TP

Employer's website

https://www.thedtgroup.org/ (Opens in a new tab)