Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday with occasional Saturday)
- Job ref
- 150-OM1276-EAS
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brighton General Hosptial
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist - Community neuro rehab team
Band 6
Job overview
A post has arisen with the Brighton and Hove Community Neuro-Rehabilitation Team (CNRT) to work as a Occupational Therapist on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.
The post holder will manage a varied and complex caseload providing skilled occupational therapy intervention for people requiring assessment and neuro-rehabilitation when they are experiencing impairments that impact upon high level functioning and activities. The post holder will focus their interventions on supporting people to increase their autonomy and independence within their homes; enhance their social participation and psychological well-being and facilitate the resumption of roles important to the person including education or employment. The post holder will also be expected to contribute to education for the person, their family and the wider support network and to act as a resource for CNRT.
Experience of working with people with neurological conditions within the community is essential and you will need to be an effective communicator who can work flexibly and proactively to deliver a prompt and clinically effective service. You should be a creative problem solver and demonstrate a willingness to develop and pilot new ideas.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for a complex neuro caseload
- To work as part of a MDT
- To collect and report on data relating to the service
- To support with service development and development of others as required
- To support junior staff and students as required.
We provide all of our staff with the opportunity to work in a Multidisciplinary Team that is continuing to develop to meet the needs of the people that we serve and provide innovative and effective ways of delivering intervention. We support all staff with professional supervision and regular development reviews and relevant training.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are seeking an OT who has significant post graduate neuro experience, who is a dynamic MDT worker, able to use initiative and who would relish the challenge of being able to help provide a comprehensive and enabling service to the residents of Brighton and Hove. The successful applicant will be supported to develop more specialist and advanced clinical and leadership skills.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/ diploma in occupational therapy
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate training in a Neuro field
Experience
Essential criteria
- substantial experience in neuro rehab
- advanced assessment, treatment and discharge planning skills
- capacity to work as an autonomous practitioner
- record and maintain patient records
Desirable criteria
- management of lower grade staff
- signposting to statutory and non statutory service
- experience of SSNAP data collection
knowlegde and skills
Essential criteria
- advanced communication and interpersonal skills
- effective member of a team
- motivational and able to neogiate
- advanced clinical reasoning skills
- ability to use and analysis standardized assessments
- ability to work under pressure
- innovation and service development
- car driver and access to a car
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Integrated Stroke Delivery Networks
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanna Thornhill
- Job title
- OT lead CNRT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 242271
- Additional information
email preferable
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