Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Following the NCL Community services review Enfield Community Therapies has received significant investment to develop Community and Neurology rehabilitation services . This post has been newly created to build on existing rehabilitation provision to include Community based Occupational Therapy rehabilitation services.

The post holder will have the opportunity to work alongside Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Psychology colleagues to enable an MDT approach to community rehab . There is support from rehab assistants within the team. The opportunity to rotate between community rehab and community Stroke/ Neuro rehabilitation will be in place so will allow you to develop clinical skills with a range of pathologies.

We invite you to apply if you are looking for a chance to develop as a B5 within the community rehab setting. There is a B8a clinical lead OT in post as well as B7 and B6 OTs to support you . We would welcome you to attend for an informal visit. We are able to sponsor those who would require working visa applications and would, whilst the posts are full time, welcome and consider applications for differing work patterns.

The team are based at St Michael's Primary care centre with ease of parking for staff and access to Enfield Borough. It is in close proximity to the M25 and has good transport links to Herts and central London.

Interviews are planned for 29.6.23

Main duties of the job

As part of the Community rehab and Stroke/ Neurological rehab Service providing care to a multi cultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard Occupational Therapy service in the Community.

To work alongside more senior staff or to have access to senior support at all times during normal working hours.

Potential to rotate between Community general rehabilitation and stroke / neuro rehab with a possibility of further growth in options of rotations across other specialities.

To perform occupational therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations of physical, cognitive and psychological conditions, to provide a clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme. To work with rehab assistants to deliver the programmes in people's home and community environment.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.