# Occupational Therapist for Medicine (inc. Neuro)

**Company**: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
**Location**: Harlow, Essex
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £47810.00 to £54710.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This band 7 role is the joint team lead therapy position for our integrated medicine team alongside a band 7 physiotherapist. Together you will be responsible for the therapies intervention across 6 wards and the management of 11 staff members.

You will provide a high quality expert Occupational Therapy to a specialist caseload of medical and neurology patients which consists of patients on our acute medical wards (including cardiology and respiratory) as well as having oversight of patients within the hospital with a neurological diagnosis.

You will require advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and the ability to analyse to support assessments.

Main duties of the job:

- To be responsible for providing individual and client centred assessments to medicine & neurology managing the most complex cases addressing occupational performance skills, patterns, context or contexts and activity demands in collaboration with patients and carers.

- To undertake occupational therapy specialist multi-needs assessments using complex and advanced clinical reasoning demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and analysis to develop individual and group goal and task oriented treatment plans.

- To act as a source of clinical expertise and advice providing clinical leadership within the medical team and provide a resource for other teams in regards to neurology.

- To develop collaborative treatment plans with patients, carers and colleagues in the hospital and if necessary in the patient's home environment, demonstrating ethical clinical reasoning and problem solving techniques to determine agreed outcomes across health and social care.

- To maintain high professional standards, continuously promoting and developing quality improvements appropriate to the needs of the occupational therapy service and profession.

- To be responsible for clinical and managerial caseload management ensuring clinical governance, quality assurance and occupational therapy professional standards are met.

Benefits:

- Development opportunities

- Flexible working

- Strong focus on wellbeing

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- clinical reasoning
- critical thinking
- reflection
- analysis

### Nice to have
- Change Management

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