# Specialist Occupational Therapist

**Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist, to join our established Band 6 OT neurosciences and neurorehabilitation rotation.

This post offers the opportunity to develop your clinical skills in several specialist multi-disciplinary teams with the aim of providing high quality, efficient and effective OT to a wide range of neuro patients. You will be responsible for the supervision of OT staff and Therapy Technicians. As well as having a key role in promoting evidence-based practice and service development.

The Band 6 Neuro OT rotation includes the following areas:

- Neurology

- Neuro cardiac including CTICU

- Neuro trauma

- Neurosurgery including NICU

- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

- Hyper acute and Acute stroke services

- Level 1 and Level 2 neurorehabilitation including the inpatient FND service.

- Wandsworth Community Neuro Rehabilitation team

All applicants must have experience of working with an adult client group in neurological rehabilitation. You need to be a confident autonomous practitioner with competent communication skills, a flexible problem-solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management.

**Main duties of the job**

- Clinical: The post holder is required to provide specialist clinical assessment, treatment and advice to support the management of a complex neurological caseload. Interventions include specialist cognitive and perceptual assessment; tone and spasticity assessment and management (including casting and splinting), specialist seating and complex discharge & rehabilitation planning.

- Leadership/workforce management: The post holder is responsible for the daily management of their clinical caseload including prioritisation and allocation to junior and/or support staff.

**About us**

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large teaching Trust with one of the largest hospitals in Europe. As a Major Trauma Centre we are known for our excellence in stroke, neurorehabilitation, and acute neurosciences services.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year pro rata per annum including inner London HCAS

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 6 position

- Permanent, full-time contract

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- neurological rehabilitation
- clinical assessment
- cognitive and perceptual assessment
- tone and spasticity assessment
- specialist seating
- discharge and rehabilitation planning
- leadership
- workforce management
- communication skills
- problem-solving
- clinical reasoning

### Nice to have
- Fieldwork Educators Course
- postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical field of neurology
- previous experience at band 6 level
- staff/student supervision/IPR
- teaching experience in in-service programs
- involvement in Clinical audit
- experience of the research process

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