Senior Occupational Therapist

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We are searching for an outstanding Senior Occupational Therapist for the Fairlie Healthcare Group. At Fairlie Healthcare, we operate three specialised care centres in West Norwood, Purley and Banstead, all providing care for people with complex neurological and respiratory conditions.

Scope:

To provide highly specialised occupational therapy assessment and intervention for residents with complex needs, and to provide expert advice, guidance and information to professionals, carers and relatives and other non-professionals across Three Homes (Woodstown House, Highfield House & Fairlie House. Post-holder will work autonomously and providing all aspect of occupational therapy and leading activity team for leisure / recreation activities / sensory stimulation in meaningful way for residents with diverse cognitive presentations and complex physical disability through junior staff / assistants / healthcare assistants / activity staffs / family members.

Clinical

• To be responsible for a clinical caseload and ensure that the residents receive appropriate treatment to a high professional standard, in accordance with the Professional Standards and Code of Ethics of the College of Occupational Therapist (COT). To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work.
• To undertake a specialist assessment of residents, including those with diverse or complex physical disability and multi-pathologies; use clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate foundation for the therapeutic management of resident’s conditions.
• To prepare and deliver a resident-centred intervention based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options, using specialist clinical assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills. These would include 24-hour postural management, resident education, cognitive programmes / activities, ADL and IADL among other intervention options.
• Responsible to undertake a highly specialist assessment of neurological occupational therapy which includes cognitive assessments for PDoC such as The Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM) Sensory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique (SMART) and or The JFK Coma Recovery Scale Revised (CRS-R) and other cognitive assessments such as The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA). Also ability to use and interpret assessment results for further therapeutic management.

What do I need to be successful?

For this role, you are required to have the following attributes:

• You Must have full right to work in the UK without sponsorship (we are not accepting candidates on a student visa and skilled workers)
• At least 2 years previous experience as an Occupational Therapist in the UK
• To be responsible attend management or service development meetings as a representative of the occupational therapy service.
• To be responsible to demonstrate effective communication skills with residents and caregivers to maximize rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent should be used with a wide variety of residents.
• To be responsible to encourages effective communication between all involved, and anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
• A passion for caring for others.
• Work constructively as part of a team and understand your role and responsibilities.
• A positive attitude
• Willingness to undertake further training and development.
• It would be an advantage if you had an NVQ Level 2 or Level 3 Health and Social Care qualification, however, this isn’t essential.

What’s in it for me?

• Paid Breaks
• Onsite parking
• Free meals whilst working on shift.
• Company Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• New and improved starter induction programme
• Comprehensive on the job training & support

Senior Occupational Therapist

Location: Purley

Contract: Full time Contract - 37,5h per week.

Equal Opportunities

Fairlie Healthcare are an equal opportunities employer, who value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check.