Highly Specialist Neurological Occupational Therapist

at  Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Homerton Healthcare has a small but special Band 7 occupational therapy neurorehabilitation rotation across two teams. We have a strong reputation for growing our own excellent OT’s and champion the unique contribution that our OT’s bring to healthcare. If you are a driven and experienced band 6 or existing band 7 who wishes to further their career in neurorehabilitation as a Band 7, we would love to consider you for this maternity cover.
The maternity cover is on the acute stroke unit however depending on the skills of the successful applicant, the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit may be an option. We welcome all interested candidates with relevant NHS experience and secondments from other Trusts are welcomed.
We will support you to develop your neurological OT expertise through joint sessions, training opportunities, engagement in service and strategic objectives and operational leadership. You will benefit from peer support as well as supervision and clinical support from a B8a clinical specialist OT. You will share your expertise through student education, delivering teaching programmes, and contributing to service development activities, audit and quality improvement work. There are excellent opportunities and encouragement for continued professional development, including internal and external training.
Please be aware that this post may close early once sufficient applications have been received
Working as a band 7 OT will help you to further develop advanced assessment and intervention skills in complex cognition, behavioural management, physical management, arousal levels, and clinical leadership skills.
The Stroke Unit includes acute and rehab stroke beds for Hackney patients. Our stroke specialist multidisciplinary team includes stroke rehabilitation nurses and consultants, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech & language therapists, dieticians, clinical neuropsychologists and therapy assistants, social workers, and discharge coordinators. We work closely with our therapy colleagues from Integrated Independence Team (ESD), Adult Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team and our local charity, the ‘Stroke Project’. We are a dynamic, patient centred and quality improvement focused stroke pathway with several exciting local and pathway projects that this post-holder will be part of. Our therapy service is well respected within the stroke network with a well-resourced team and an established record of excellent clinical SSNAP ratings.
The RNRU is a level 1b unit in London supporting patients with complex cognitive and/or complex physical disability. Our specialist multi-disciplinary team consists of neuro specialist nurses and consultants; a neuro AHP consultant leads our therapy team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, neuropsychology, social work, a leisure coordinator and therapy assistants.
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of “Outstanding” from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard’s Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home. We have a wide range of community rehabilitation services and charitable sector services that we can access to support discharge planning.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
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The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed

Please refer the Job description for details