Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

Location
Job type Permanent
Salary £44,503 per year
Reference 157189

Sanctuary Personnel, a leading and award-winning recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist to work full-time based in Redford.


The salary for this permanent Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist job is £44,503 per annum.

Main Duties:
• Work as part of a multi/ interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the BIRT Neuro behavioural model to service users with acquired brain injury (ABI).
• Lead on OT provision within the service.
• Liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users.
• 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 neuro behavioural model.
• Supervise/ mentor and provide in service training for others (therapy assistants, students, rehabilitation support workers and less experienced OT colleagues). Actively identify learning needs of the team, challenge complacency and ensure that good quality, regular supervision and appraisal are carried out and recorded
• 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

Requirements of the Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist:
• Degree or equivalent within Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent post qualifying experience working as an Occupational Therapist

Contact:
This Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Paul Chittock; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.


Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.