Specialist Occupational Therapist - NRU | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Preston

We have a unique and exciting opportunity to join the NRU team as a static Band 6 OT. This post is unlikely to be available again for some time. The Specialist Neuro Rehabilitation Unit is a regional unit (NRU) at Royal Preston Hospital.

You would be welcomed into a fantastic, established, multi-disciplinary team within the NRU and Royal Preston Hospital. We pride ourselves on being OT legends, providing the best possible complex neurological care for our patients whilst increasing their independence.

At the NRU, you complete your timetabled sessions starting with handover and then cracking on with the rest of your day. This could be anything from personal care to support improved independence, physically progressing the good work done by our physio colleagues or supporting cognition. You might jump to assessing kitchen activities, making a bacon butty, to supporting behaviour management alongside the psychology team. Your afternoon could be neuro splinting, complex patient meetings, setting patient-orientated SMART goals or anything in between.

We are an integrated friendly and supportive team, so you’ll be spending loads of your time with physios, therapy assistants, speech and language therapists and psychologists. Our therapy assistants are the perfect people to continue any programmes you have put into place. No two days are the same and joint working is encouraged and supported.

We have a comprehensive core therapy cognitive and perceptual training programme alongside trust training and therapeutic moving and handling, where there is always time for a laugh whilst building on your specialist handling skills. We have regular supervision and in-service training. In addition to this, we have regular social events; it really is a great place to work. We have recently been told, “I have never worked in such a supportive team.”

The Acute NRU is a Specialist Regional unit providing assessment and rehabilitation following neurological trauma, surgery or disease within Lancashire and South Cumbria. We are an integrated team of OT and physio working closely with the wider MDT to promote integrated assessment, diagnostics and rehabilitation provision. We work in partnership with our acute and community colleagues to provide high quality, seamless service for our patients.

We offer a supportive work environment where you can develop your skills and knowledge and play a key role in the delivery of high quality health care. There are multiple opportunities for personal and professional development at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. We have a dedicated Health Academy and the learning and development of staff within the trust is very much encouraged and supported, alongside participation in the late shift rota to facilitate discharges from other areas of the hospital during times of pressure.

You should have clinical experience of working with complex neurological patients and have the skills to provide acute assessments and discharge planning, deliver effective treatment plans to achieve short and long term rehabilitation goals using a patient-orientated SMART approach and to complete complex discharge planning. Ability to complete effective and regular liaison and joint working with the MDT (including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics, medics, psychology and community and voluntary services) is essential.