Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist - Birmingham

Clear Destination Inc.; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

33 days annual leave

Leave trading up to 5 days

Simply Health Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Training and support

Group life assurance

Eye voucher scheme

Free parking

Company Pension

Long Service and Staff Awards

Job summary

Brainkind in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within the West Heath House team. You will provide OT input for service users with acquired brain injury, leading on OT provision and liaising with professionals, families and service users.

You will manage a complex caseload, apply neurobehavioral approaches, develop care programmes, and monitor progress. A HCPC registered OT with 4+ years post-qualification and UK driving licence is required.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Registered with the HCPC.
• Specialist knowledge of OT interventions in ABI (cognitive rehab, upper limb rehab).
• Experience with neurological deficits or ABI, including dysphagia management.
• Minimum 4 years post registration with 2+ years in neurology.
• UK Driving licence and willingness to drive.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team within a neurobehavioral model.
• Autonomously manage a caseload with complex needs; supervise remotely if needed.
• Assess, formulate, implement and evaluate OT interventions for ABI.
• Address occupational performance in self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
• Develop care programmes and ensure handover to support workers; monitor progress.
• Collaborate with service users, families and external agencies with sensitivity.

Skills

Specialist knowledge of OT in ABI

Dysphagia management

Neurological rehabilitation

Post-registration experience 4+ years

Driving licence

Education

Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Job description

Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

West Heath House - Birmingham

Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum DOE

Hours: 35 hours

Why join us?

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you’ll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

The Service:

West Heath House works with people who have to cope with a range of cognitive, physical and/or emotional symptoms following a severe brain injury. Rehabilitation is based on a neurobehavioral approach and focuses on enabling service users to function more independently and to participate in as many of their previous roles and activities as possible, while developing their lives with privacy, dignity and respect.

The Role:

To work as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the Brainkind Neurobehavioral model to service users with acquired brain injury (ABI) and to lead on OT provision within the service. To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users.

Your responsibilities will include:

• To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with highly developed skills and knowledge in neurological rehabilitation, potentially as the sole clinician but with supervision (which may be remote) of a more senior OT. To accept professional accountability and responsibility.
• To manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
• 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 interventions bringing specialist knowledge to more complex cases.
• To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
• 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 work with service users, family/carers and outside agencies in a sensitive and flexible way considering the most appropriate environment for assessment and intervention and responding to changing needs, circumstances and cultural issues. To maintain the highest levels of integrity during all communications.

About you:

What are we looking for?

• The successful applicant will have a Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Registered with the HCPC
• Specialist knowledge of OT interventions in ABI e.g. cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation.
• Experience of working with service users with neurological deficits or acquired brain injury. Able to manage complex dysphagia within an adult neurology caseload
• Minimum of 4 years post registration with at least 2 years experience working with neurological conditions (this may include experience as part of a mixed caseload or prequalification experience).
• Valid UK Driving licence and willingness to drive service users in unit vehicles.

Rewards:

You can look forward to excellent benefits, including:

• A competitive Salary of £49,387 - £56,515 per annum DOE
• 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Simply Health Plan; helps to cover the cost of routine healthcare treatments. Further information can be found at www.simplyhealth.co.uk/about-us
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Free parking
• Company Pension
• Long Service and Staff Awards

All clinical roles have CPD opportunities and we may support further professional development

We will consider applications from candidates who require sponsorship.

All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It’s a place where we recognise, celebrate and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.