Specialist Occupational Therapist

Spread your wings, Bexley Community Neurorehabilitation Team is looking to appoint a motivated and committed Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist, with a keen interest and proven experience of working with adults with neurological conditions. Ideally you will be an existing B6 OT wanting to further develop your specialist skills in neurology and community working.

You will be part of a busy community multidisciplinary Neuro-Rehabilitation Team in the London Borough of Bexley, working 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri), with rostered weekend working every 5-6 weeks. Working from home and flexible working is supported by the Trust.

You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management. The team provides a service in clients' own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in-service training. In exchange for your professional skills, passion and commitment to patient centred care, we offer you a supportive, friendly team where you will be listened to, feel valued and be developed as a Band 6.

With support and training from the 8a Clinical Specialist and Highly Specialist Band 7 OT, you will provide specialist neurological OT assessment and treatment to clients presenting with highly complex neurological conditions including; Stroke, MND, MS, Head Injury, and Parkinson's.

The service encourages continued professional development, with in-service training within the Neurorehabilitation team and quarterly professional peer supervision with all Bexley Care OT's. This post also offers the opportunity to develop supervisory skills, by being responsible for a Band 5 OT, therapy assistants and student OTs as required. You will have the opportunity to work closely with other colleagues in the South East London sector and be part of our teams development in line with the Neuro Core offer.

It is essential that you hold a full UK driving license and preferably have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes, although Oxleas offers a Lease Car Scheme to all substantive employees. Mileage is paid at 45p per mile.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind

We're Fair

We Listen

We Care

To provide specialist occupational therapy input to clients as part of the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service.

To work with specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners to manage those with neurology long term conditions.

To supervise Band 5 occupational therapists/ therapy assistants and occupational therapy students.

To be responsible and accountable for assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of conditions including complex cases, in the community as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients.

To be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge levels and skills in neurology conditions and interventions.

To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients, often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses.

To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users.

To monitor, review and continually re-assess clients complex care plans and objectives against outcomes measures in order to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals.