Brain Injury & Rehab Occupational Therapist - Leeds Liverpool, England

justot

Full Time Liverpool, England 27055 - 32934 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

A superb permanent opportunity for band 5 Occupational Therapist based in Leeds. Our client who is specialist neurobehavioural rehabilitation centre for people with an acquired brain injury.

J102722

Occupational Therapist Band 5 Permanent

Location: Liverpool

Salary: 27,055 -£32,934 dep on exp

Hours: Full Time

Speciality: Brain Injury/ Rehabilitation

(ABI).

Opened in 1992, our client was one of the first assessment and rehabilitation centres for brain injury in the UK and offers a range of flexible rehabilitation options within a modern and comfortable environment.

Job Role:

To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with support and supervision of a more senior OT. To accept professional accountability and responsibility.
With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to 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 intervention.
To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to 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 neurobehavioural model.
To delegate tasks appropriately according to the competence of colleagues and take responsibility for handover, monitoring and review.
With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to use interpersonal skills and empathy to engage those service users and families who may be resistant to the rehabilitation process or may be distressed.
To carry out detailed risk assessments and ensure that these are regularly reviewed and updated and communicate this with the team effectively
To support a culture where everyone is encouraged to learn from their mistakes through giving and receiving constructive feedback.
To supervise/mentor and provide in service training for others (therapy assistants, students and rehabilitation support workers) with the support from a senior OT.
To contribute to professional networks to promote exchange of knowledge and best practice.
Be accountable for own practice and take every reasonable opportunity to maintain and improve own knowledge, professional competence and support continual learning and development.
Use reflective practice, identify own learning needs through proactive participation in clinical supervision and the Trust's Being our Best performance review process, and demonstrate commitment to recording of continuous professional development.
Work within the limits of own competence and seek advice and support when needed.
Undertake any other duties as may from time to time be specified by the Trust, that is within the level and responsibility appropriate to the grade of post.
To undertake, any reasonable travelling requirements, in order to fulfil the tasks and responsibilities of the role.