We have an exciting opportunity for a thoughtful, proactive, and enthusiastic Neuro Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Luton Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Service (LICRS), which was recently rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

LICRS currently provides a range of services including inpatient rehabilitation, Stroke early supported discharge, acquired brain injury caseload management, prevention of admission, facilitating discharges and community based rehabilitation.

The successful post holder will have experience in working within neurological rehabilitation – including traumatic and acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke and other neurological conditions to include all degrees of severity/complexity.

This role provides a mixture of direct clinical work with patients as well as clinical oversight of service delivery and quality assurance.

This is a permanent, full-time role to provide specialist neurological Occupational Therapy coverage in the Luton community area. The role will involve community- based working so it is essential to have a UK driving licence.

You will feel valued as a Neuro Specialist Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £43,742 - £50,056 Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Working for an organisation that has been shortlisted in the Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2023 for Best Equality and Diversity Project and Best Social Responsibility Programme. We are also delighted to have been shortlisted for the Wellbeing and Employee Engagement Award for our menopause support package, and for the Best Cost of Living Response Award for our cost of living support. The winner will be announced at the CIPP's Annual Excellence Awards on Thursday 5 October
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

As a Neuro Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will:

• Undertake the comprehensive specialist assessment of patients, using interpretive, investigative, and analytical skills and initiate appropriate treatment
• Employ specialist neuro clinical assessment, knowledge, and reasoning skills to provide treatment using a broad range of techniques and other alternative options
• Make recommendations to clinical lead/service leads for changes to practice by the occupational therapy team which may lead the implementation of specific changes to OT practice or contribute to service protocols.
• Formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing negotiated goals leading to comprehensive discharge plans.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge and supplement this with significant experience within the community setting to provide treatment
• Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Be responsible for the teaching, supervision, and co-ordination of more junior members of staff

For a full list of job responsibilities please see the attached job description.

• Graduate Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registration as Occupational Therapist
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Extensive experience after graduation  working within stroke and neurology discipline.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with people with cognitive and communication difficulties
• Experienced and specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, clinical reasoning and treatment skills

As this is a community-based role a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is required.

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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