Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist to work in Milton Keynes on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist job is £43,742 - £50,056 per annum.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary ranging from £43,742 to £50,056, depending on experience
- 38 days of annual leave, including bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support
- Comprehensive training and ongoing support
- Group life assurance for added security
- Company pension scheme
- Eye care voucher scheme
- Recognition through long service and staff awards
- Free on-site parking
- Nationwide employee discounts, including savings on dining out and shopping
- Blue Light Card offering exclusive discounts for NHS staff, emergency services, social care workers, and armed forces, available both online and in-store
Main Duties:
- Specialist Clinical Practice: Operate within a specialised clinical area as an autonomous professional with advanced skills and knowledge in neurological rehabilitation. You may work as the sole clinician with supervision (which may be remote) from a senior Occupational Therapist. Accept professional accountability and responsibility for your work.
- Caseload Management: Manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental and physical health needs and/or challenging behaviours.
- Occupational Therapy Process: Complete the OT process using evidence-based and service user-centred principles. Apply clinical reasoning to assess, develop treatment plans, implement, and evaluate interventions, particularly for more complex cases.
- Occupational Performance Enhancement: Address deficits in occupational performance and skills, enabling service users to improve in areas such as self-care, productivity, education, and leisure.
- Care Programme Development: Develop comprehensive care programmes, ensuring thorough handovers to rehabilitation support workers or therapy assistants. Monitor progress through data collection, evaluate outcomes, and modify treatment to ensure intervention effectiveness according to the neurobehavioural model.
- Task Delegation: Appropriately delegate tasks based on colleagues' competence. Take responsibility for handover, monitoring, and review processes.
- Engagement and Empathy: Use advanced interpersonal skills and empathy to engage with service users and families, especially those who may be resistant to rehabilitation or experiencing distress.
- Risk Assessment: Conduct detailed risk assessments, particularly for complex issues. Ensure these assessments are regularly reviewed, updated, and communicated effectively within the team.
- Documentation and Reporting: Maintain detailed, accurate documentation in line with Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) guidance. Produce professional reports that demonstrate specialist knowledge.
- Collaborative Working: Work sensitively and flexibly with service users, families, carers, and outside agencies. Consider the most appropriate environments for assessment and intervention, adapting to changing needs, circumstances, and cultural issues. Maintain the highest levels of integrity in all communications.
- Team Collaboration: Participate as an active member of the multidisciplinary team, sharing specialist knowledge, engaging in meetings, contributing to shared decision-making, and helping to establish service user-centred therapeutic goals that promote choice.
- Critical Thinking: Apply highly developed critical thinking skills when making professional judgements. Communicate your decision-making process clearly and effectively, even in complex or unpredictable situations.
- Clinical Leadership: Support the clinical lead for certain service users by maintaining contact with families and outside agencies, coordinating rehabilitation programmes, and facilitating discharge planning.
- Equipment Assessment and Referral: Assess the need for, issue, and refer service users to outside agencies for appropriate equipment. Ensure staff, service users, and families receive adequate training, and that all necessary risk assessments are in place.
Requirements of the Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist:
- A degree in Occupational Therapy or a similar qualification.
- Be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Show proof of relevant postgraduate courses and ongoing professional development (CPD).
- Be skilled in evidence-based practice and using outcome measures.
- Use advanced clinical reasoning for therapy assessments and interventions.
- Be able to work independently and prioritise tasks effectively.
- Confidently assess and manage risks related to therapy services.
Contact:
This Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
