Occupational Therapist - Rehab Project

HealthJobs Ltd; Brentwood; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Your World Healthcare seeks an experienced Occupational Therapist for a locum role in Brent. The post involves community-based assessments and interventions to maximise patient independence and functional outcomes, with support from an MDT and a Clinical Lead OT.

Ideal candidates will have UK OT experience, HCPC registration, and strong communication skills to work with diverse age groups in a busy community setting.

Qualifications

• Full OT qualifications.
• HCPC registration.
• UK Occupational Therapy experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Conduct holistic community-based OT assessments and interventions.
• Manage a defined caseload across the project lifetime.
• Collaborate with MDT for clinical decisions; support with documentation and patient care.

Skills

UK OT experience

Excellent written and verbal comms

Education

Full OT qualifications

Job description

Your World is currently looking to place a Band 6 / 7 Occupational Therapist with UK experience into a locum role in Brent.

Based in a fantastic community team in Brent, this position is ideal for an OT who needs a new challenge and wants to take their career to the next step. This position comes with the added bonus of working alongside an experienced team of healthcare professionals.

Your role will be to undertake holistic Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions within the community, supporting patients to maximise their independence and achieve positive functional outcomes.

This will include community-based assessment and rehabilitation for patients with a variety of medical diagnoses. You must be able to work autonomously, making specialist clinical decisions, with support provided through the MDT, including a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist and Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. Therapists. Experience of falls, rehabilitation and elderly care or neurology is advantageous, together with a working knowledge of community equipment provision.

Clinicians will manage a defined caseload across the lifetime of the project, working towards agreed project outcomes and maintaining high standards of clinical documentation and patient care.

Are you the right OT?

The ideal candidate for this role will have plenty of experience in UK Occupational Therapy positions and the desire to progress their career even further. You must possess a confident but friendly nature, plus the ability to work with patients from a range of age groups and backgrounds. As your patients will have different requirements, you must be willing to adapt your methods to match their specific needs. You must be highly organised and motivated to achieve the best outcome for your patients.

Requirements

• Full OT qualifications
• HCPC registration
• UK Occupational Therapy experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication

About Your World

As the leading supplier of Occupational Therapists in the UK, Your World Healthcare has hundreds of OT jobs in multiple locations around the country. Our dedicated OT specialists source only the most reliable Occupational Therapy roles for numerous NHS Trusts and private UK healthcare organisations. Last year, we supplied our candidates with over 5 million hours of work!