Senior Occupational Therapist
Job Title Senior Occupational Therapist
Location Milton Keynes
Job Type Locum
Speciality Senior Occupational Therapist
Rates £38,890 - £44,503

Description

About the Role: In this role you will be required to work as part of a multi/ interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the Neurobehavioural model to service users. You will also liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users. Responsibilities: To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with highly developed skills and knowledge potentially as the sole clinician. 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. The ideal candidate will have: - A diploma or a degree in occupational therapy and registered with HCPC - Experience supervising and training others Benefits Include: - Company pension scheme – automatically enrolled and we will contribute 10% of annual - Private medical insurance – we will pay the contributions for the individual’s inclusion in the scheme. - Life Assurance – available after 6 months’ continuous service and provides equivalent of four times annual salary in the event of death in service. - 38 days Annual Leave (including Bank Holidays). - Enrolment in a staff benefits scheme – Perkbox.