At a Glance
- Tasks: Support individuals with brain injuries to regain independence through tailored rehabilitation programmes.
- Company: Join Brainkind, a charity dedicated to improving lives of those with brain injuries.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous leave, healthcare support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working environment with excellent career growth and CPD opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while working in a passionate and supportive team.
- Qualifications: Degree in Occupational Therapy and experience with neurological conditions required.
The predicted salary is between 49387 - 56515 £ per year.
Job Summary
West Heath House - Birmingham
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum DOE
Hours: 35 hours
Why join us? Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do; you'll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
The Service
West Heath House works with people who have to cope with a range of cognitive, physical and/or emotional symptoms following a severe brain injury. Rehabilitation is based on a neurobehavioral approach and focuses on enabling service users to function more independently and to participate in as many of their previous roles and activities as possible, while developing their lives with privacy, dignity and respect.
Main Duties of the Job
- To 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 (which may be remote) of a more senior OT.
- 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.
- To work with service users, family/carers and outside agencies in a sensitive and flexible way considering the most appropriate environment for assessment and intervention and responding to changing needs, circumstances and cultural issues.
- To maintain the highest levels of integrity during all communications.
Rewards
You can look forward to excellent benefits, including:
- A competitive Salary of £49,387 - £56,515 per annum DOE
- 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Simply Health Plan; helps to cover the cost of routine healthcare treatments.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Excellent training and support
- Group life assurance
- Eye voucher scheme
- Free parking
- Company Pension
- Long Service and Staff Awards
All clinical roles have CPD opportunities and we may support further professional development. We will consider applications from candidates who require sponsorship.
Person Specification
Qualifications - Essential
About you: What are we looking for?
- The successful applicant will have a Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered with the HCPC
- Specialist knowledge of OT interventions in ABI e.g. cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation.
- Experience of working with service users with neurological deficits or acquired brain injury.
- Able to manage complex dysphagia within an adult neurology caseload
- Minimum of 4 years post registration with at least 2 years experience working with neurological conditions (this may include experience as part of a mixed caseload or prequalification experience).
- Valid UK Driving licence and willingness to drive service users in unit vehicles.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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