Band 6 Specialist Neuro Occupational Therapist: Sutton H&C Community

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

The community Neuro team is looking for OT’s with a passion to work with adult neuro clients .
The role is an opportunity to work in a Community MDT who truly support each other & work towards our vision ‘Investing in our patient community, empowering them to live well’.
We work holistically, towards patient led goals, providing rehabilitation & intervention to maximise patient’s potential. We are patient centred & specialists within our field, using evidence-based practice & investing in our staff, so they have the knowledge, skills & training to do this. We provide intervention based on clinical need, utilising each other’s expertise & our rehabilitation assistants to maximise our intervention.
Visits take place in patients’ homes, care homes & clinics, so staff need to be able to travel around the borough & work autonomously. Many of the team work part time/ flexibly; there is some degree of remote working. As a team we also feel it is important that we come together regularly for clinical support/supervision, development, communication .
These roles are the perfect opportunity for current band 5 or 6’s who have had who has some experience & wish to further build on skills specifically in the specialty of Community Neuro therapy.
Staff looking for full-time, part time & or job shares should apply, we will be happy to discuss / explore possibilities with appointable candidates.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Current Driving Licence.
• Access to a car for work purposes
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The Sutton Community Neuro therapy & Adult Speech & Language therapy service is a Multi disciplinary team offering specialist, comprehensive assessment & intervention. We work with adults in the Sutton area of South West London who have Neurological conditions.
The service has various pathways which enable us to deliver intervention to meet our patients’ needs. Community Neuro provides intervention to Stroke survivors (including an Early Supported Discharge (ESD) response) and other complex Neuro conditions, such as PD, MS and MND.
The needs of our patients vary widely & our services offer rehabilitation, enablement & disability management interventions dependant on the patients’ needs & goals.
We offer specialised multi-disciplinary therapy assessment & intervention to patients in order to promote quality of life & independence, by preventing inappropriate hospital stays, maximising rehabilitation, recovery, and self-management
Therapists are expected to work flexibility across the pathways.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements.