Senior Occupational Therapist - Neuro/Medical Team

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work including management of patient caseloads.
• Formulate and develop individual treatment programmes underpinned by sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and using a range of treatment options.
• Use clinical reasoning skills and evaluate outcomes of treatments to continually reassess and develop treatment programmes.
• Establish an accurate prognosis and recommend best course of treatments in addition to developing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans.
• Use a large range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate with patients to progress and gain participation with rehabilitation treatment programmes. This will include patients who have difficulties in understanding and communicating.
  To be responsible for management of clinical risk of your own caseload.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• HCPC Registered
• BSC Hons Occupational Therapy or Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Desirable criteria

• Leadership course
• Manual handling qualification
• Neuro specific training e.g Bobath

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience working in a healthcare setting
• Understanding and ability to apply process OT
• Experience of MDT working
• Variety of relevant Neuro/Stroke clinical experience

Desirable criteria

• Supervising practice placements for O.T. students
• Previous audit experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• IT literate including knowledge of Microsoft office tools
• Demonstrate a pragmatic approach to a range of unpredictable situations
• Professional and customer care skills
• Able to deal with variety of environmental factors
• Ability to prioritise work load and delegate tasks appropriately
• Awareness of Stroke/neuro specific guidelines

Desirable criteria

• Experience of service development

Other

Essential criteria

• Communicating sensitive information to staff, patients or carers.
• Be able to undertake moderate physical effort throughout day

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

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