Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Rehabilitation Therapy Team. This role will require the successful candidate to provide a high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy service, which promotes participation and functional activity of children and young people accessing our neurorehabilitation services.
The role of Specialist Occupational Therapist will provide a high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy service, which promotes participation and functional activity of children and young people accessing our neurorehabilitation services.
Our service delivery aims to promote outcome-focused interventions, safe care, function, and participation of children and young people accessing home, school, and community life. You will deliver child and family-focused, goal-led interventions at a specialist level within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy provision for children and young people, in partnership with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and education services.
- Undertake specialist occupational therapy assessments of children with a range of needs, including highly complex needs.
- Develop therapy goals, in collaboration with the child and family/carers, as well as the MDT, to maximise recovery and facilitate the participation of the child in their daily life.
- Devise and carry out therapeutic interventions that are developmentally appropriate, goal-directed, and occupation-centred both in terms of means and outcome.
- Use observational and standardised outcome measures to monitor and evaluate each child's progress and adjust intervention/programmes, as necessary.
- Contribute to the assessment of the child/young person's upper limb and support provision of interventions to maintain or improve upper limb range and function where possible.
- Assess and advise on specialist equipment and liaise with social services and relevant others on its provision.
- Assess, evaluate, and recommend discharge/transition plans for children/young people within the multidisciplinary team framework.
- Contribute to child-related reports, including looked-after children and annual review reports as required.
- Contribute to child-related meetings, meetings with parents, MDT meetings, and liaison with external agencies where appropriate.
- Keep appropriate and accurate intervention records.
- Work flexibly in terms of hours, including the ability to work an early evening (weekly) and one weekend day, per calendar month.
Benefits:
- Attractive salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year (£36,762-£43,403 pro rata dependent on experience)
- Adoption pay
- Time off for fertility treatment
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Paid carers leave
- Time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms
- Time off for gender reassignment
- Additional annual leave days for those with long service (35-41 days, including bank holidays)
- Free on-site parking
- Staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court
- Subsidised cafeteria
- On-site staff accommodation (subject to availability)
- Retention of NHS pension (where applicable) or alternative scheme