Specialist OT community Stroke and Neuro - 12 months FTC

Specialist OT community Stroke and Neuro - 12 months FTC

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Stroke and Neuro Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 month FTC) Hours Full time - 75 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-4025-C

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Outlook Centre Town St Johns Way Salary £47,951 - £56,863 per annum including Inner London HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 10/09/2026 23:59

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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

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 client’s 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

Person specification

Education and Qualification

• degree in OT or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• post grad courses - normal movement, counselling, neurology, COOP, Postural management

Skills and Abilities

• demonstrates active involvement in MDT work
• demonstrates strong clinical reason skills with assessment and treatment planning
• demostrates use of safe manual handling practices
• Demonstrates ability to work as a long worker
• demonstrates ability to self motive and take the initiative
• demonstrates good time management and organisational skills
• Demonstrates ability to prioritise and problem solve
• Demonstrates a client centred approach to care

knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrates strong concepts of OT role within community neuro rehab
• shows knowledge of up to date evidence based practice including a variety of neuro assessment and treatment approaches
• previous experience in the NHS
• previous experience in stroke and neuro community rehabilitation
• Experience working in the NHS

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates ICARE values
• Flexibly approach to changing circumstances and departmental needs
• able to manage own wellbeing and support colleagues as needed

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Other important information

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre‑employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Juliet Benton Job title Speciality Service Manager - Therapies Email address juliet.benton@nhs.net

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