Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

Greys Specialist Recruitment
Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

Permanent Part time – 35 hours per week
Location: Birmingham
Salary: up to £53,000 per annum based on experience

Our well established client are looking for a Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist to join their team on a permanent basis.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• 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 of a more senior OT.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
• 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.
• Delegate tasks appropriately according to the competence of colleagues and take responsibility for handover, monitoring and review.
• Carry out detailed risk assessments including for more complex issues and ensure these are regularly reviewed and updated and communicate this with the team effectively.
• Use highly developed critical thinking skills when making professional judgements and communicate this process succinctly and effectively including in more complex or unpredictable contexts.

Qualifications & Experience:

• HCPC registered
• Occupational Therapy degree
• The ability to work as an autonomous therapist with experience in neurological rehabilitation
• Ability to prioritise and manage a complex caseload
• Excellent communication and report writing skills
• Ability to formulate complex risk assessments
• A valid UK driving licence

To apply for the role, please send across your updated CV to (url removed) or contact Chloe on (phone number removed).

Greys is a Specialist Recruitment Company who works with some of the UK s leading organisations within the Healthcare industry. If you are an Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Case Manager within Rehabilitation looking for Permanent, Contract, Ad-Hoc or Sessional work please contact us.