Senior Occupational Therapist

Elysium Healthcare; Sawbridgeworth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Senior Occupational Therapist at Elysium Healthcare, based in Sawbridgeworth. In this role, you'll enhance patients' quality of life through tailored rehabilitation strategies. Enjoy a supportive environment with ongoing training, competitive salary, and benefits like annual leave and pension contributions.

Benefits

33 days annual leave including bank holidays

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• At least 4 years post qualifying experience.
• Extensive clinical experience with complex needs.
• Knowledge of assessments and treatment models.

Responsibilities

• Completing neurological assessments and treatment planning.
• Working with residents and carers to set realistic goals.
• Supervising Occupational Therapy support staff.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Therapeutic handling skills

Communication

Education

Occupational Therapy profession qualification

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As an Occupational Therapist, you change lives for the better. Join the multidisciplinary team at Jacobs Neurological Centre in Sawbridgeworth and help people build a brighter future while being supported in your career. It's what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

You will be HCPC registered, passionate about working with people with neurological conditions to support their rehabilitation, condition management and maximise their quality of life.

You’ll work in partnership with residents and carers to set realistic goals and develop collaborative intervention plans, with regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt.

Working as a member of the transdisciplinary team, you’ll ensure that high quality individualised care is delivered, which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery, wellbeing, and maximising independence/quality of life.

You will be familiar with the use of outcome measures such as FIM/FAM, CRS-R, WHIM and TOMS, and have experience in managing a designated caseload using knowledge of relevant Occupational Therapy theory. You’ll also have practical experience of completing assessments, planning, implementing evidence-based Occupational Therapy interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans.

With a strong emphasis on teamwork, you’ll receive support from a regional network of healthcare professionals and enjoy access to a wide variety of training courses to support you reaching your career goals.

As An Occupational Therapist You Will Be

• Completing neurological assessments, treatment planning and interventions
• Rehabilitation interventions to improve function and independence with ADLs
• Cognitive assessment/rehabilitation
• Using of therapeutic handling skills
• Assessing environment and equipment needs including specialist seating
• Identifying ongoing needs whilst maximising quality of life
• Liaising with community colleagues to facilitate complex discharge planning
• Evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans
• Supervising Occupational Therapy support staff and students
• Implementing and develop evidence-based therapeutic activities
  
  

To Be a Successful Occupational Therapist You Will Need

• Occupational Therapy profession qualification
• At least 4 years post qualifying experience
• Extensive and relevant post qualification clinical experience with adults who have complex needs
• Extensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
• Demonstrates evidence highly effective clinical reasoning skills
• Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
• Knowledge of how to work with vulnerable individuals with LD&A and mental illness
  
  

Where you will be working

Gardens Neurological Centre and Jacobs Neurological Centre have a combined total of 132 beds on

the same site in Sawbridgeworth (CM21 0HH), which is on the Hertfordshire and Essex border within

easy travelling distance of London and Cambridge.

The two Centres deliver specialist 24-hour nursing and therapy services for people with complex

long-term neurological conditions, and brain or spinal injuries who require ongoing support and

assistance to maximise functional ability. Recovery is assisted wherever possible, with emphasis placed on maximising each individual's abilities, comfort and quality of life.

Each service has communal lounges, dining rooms, and all bedrooms have en-suite facilities with

over 95% on single occupancy. All rooms are adapted to each resident's requirements according to

their assessments and needs.

What You Will Get

• Annual salary of up to £40,000 depending on experience
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
  
  

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About Your Next Employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

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