Occupational Therapist
Liverpool
Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 FTE
Hours: 28 Hours per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a dedicated team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

MAIN PURPOSE

To work as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the Brainkind neurobehavioural model to People We Support with acquired brain injury (ABI). To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and People We Support

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical / Professional Practice

• To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional, using and developing skills and knowledge in neurological rehabilitation with support and supervision of a more senior OT. To accept professional accountability and responsibility.
• With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to manage and prioritise a caseload of People We Support with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
• With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to complete the OT process and to use evidence based/service user centred principles and clinical reasoning to assess, formulate a treatment plan, implement, and evaluate intervention.
• To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education, and leisure.
• With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to develop programmes of care, ensure adequate and detailed handover of programmes to rehabilitation support workers or therapy assistants, monitor through data gathering, evaluate and modify treatment to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention according to the neurobehavioural model.
• To delegate tasks appropriately according to the competence of colleagues and take responsibility for handover, monitoring, and review.
• With the support and supervision from a senior OT, to use interpersonal skills and empathy to engage those People We Support and families who may be resistant to the rehabilitation process or may be distressed.
• To carry out detailed risk assessments and ensure that these are regularly reviewed and updated and communicate this with the team effectively.

Leadership

• With supervision from a more senior OT manage a designated workload, identify priorities, and manage time and resources effectively.
• Act where performance and practice of self and others should be recognised, reported, or improved.
• To support and challenge others to maintain health, safety, and security at work, report actual or potential problems and suggest solutions.
• With supervision from a more senior OT, understand and work within the political and economic climate, locally, nationally, and internationally, which impacts on service delivery.
• To promote the profession and the organisation and use and develop partnerships across organisation and agency boundaries.
• To contribute to the occupational therapy and clinical speciality’s clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda including attendance at Brainkind wide OT meetings and implementing agreed outcome measures.

*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks