Specialist OT community Stroke and Neuro - 12 months FTCNHS

Job summary

this is a 12 months fixed term contract to work within the Islington MDT Stroke and Neuro Team comprising of PT, PT, SLT, CHP.

To provide an assessment, advisory and treatment service to community clients with neurological conditions referred or admitted to the Islington Locality Therapies Service, working flexibly with all other members of the team to provide an integrated rehabilitation service in accordance with the philosophy and operational policies of the service.

Clients may be seen in a variety of settings, including inpatient facilities, their own homes, residential homes, places of work and leisure facilities. The caseload is varied and comprises people who have mobility, cognitive and neurological problems

The caseload is varied and comprises people who have mobility, cognitive and neurological problems

Main duties of the job

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Job description

1. To manage a caseload of clients with simple to complex needs with supervision and guidance as necessary from senior staff. To successfully monitor, evaluate and review occupational therapy treatment/interventions within a multi-disciplinary framework and to modify as necessary taking a key worker role as indicated.

2. Develop and conduct Occupational Therapy intervention with clients assessing their occupational needs and addressing quality of life, and physical, cognitive, affective, social, and environmental issues utilising appropriate individual or group treatment methods.

3. To use developed physical skills in client interventions, such as upper limb rehabilitation, activities of daily living, splint fabrication/orthoses (hand splints).

4. To devise and manage a treatment plan individual to a clients presenting condition through, for example, the use of functional rehabilitation, adaptation, equipment provision, education, and health promotion.

5. To supervise students and colleagues as needed

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work