Senior Neuro Occupational Therapist

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team, based at Adelaide Health Centre in Southampton. This post will support the Transition Therapy element of our service; therefore, applications are especially welcomed from clinicians with a special interest in Transition Therapy. The postholder will manage a caseload of clients and co-ordinate the therapeutic input required, using specialist knowledge of those young people with conditions likely to extend into their adult life and communicate effectively with other health and social care professionals. CNRT is a friendly team that provides specialist community therapy intervention to patients with a wide variety of neuro conditions and presentations in the Southampton city and surrounding Hampshire region. You will work closely with the other therapists within the team and other multidisciplinary team members. As well as being supported by the Team Leader, Senior Clinicians and Service Leads you will receive professional specific and CPD support from Band 7/8 OTs within the service. The postholder will have post graduate experience which should include some specific neuro clinical experience and evidence of working within a multidisciplinary team. Experience of service improvement projects or audits is also desirable. This is a community post and therefore access to a car for community visits is essential.,

• To work as part of a multi-professional team, in close collaboration with other relevant services/agencies.
• To manage a caseload of clients and co-ordinate the therapeutic input required using specialist knowledge of those young people with conditions likely to extend into their adult life and communicate effectively with other health and social care professionals.
• Provide advice on the transition process to health and social care professionals and other staff, sharing in formal and informal teaching settings; provide support to young people undertaking the transition process.
• Work with the Service Matron in order to improve processes, care pathways and co-ordinated systems, ensuring a seamless transition from Children's to Adult services.
• Undertake assessment and treatment of clients, who have complex / and or chronic presentation requiring specialist skills and determine profession specific and multidisciplinary rehab interventions.
• Plan and implement comprehensive programmes of intervention for clients who require rehab.
• To manage and organise the team's caseload when the team leader is absent e.g. attending the MDT meeting, scheduling work for self and other team members, providing specialist advise to team members and external agencies
• Supervise junior members of staff, rehabilitation assistants and students on clinical placement.
• To actively contribute to team developments on a routine basis.
  
  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence