Job Summary
Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist
West Heath House - Birmingham
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum DOE
Hours: 35 hours

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'll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

The Service:
West Heath House works with people who have to cope with a range of cognitive, physical and/or emotional symptoms following a severe brain injury. Rehabilitation is based on a neurobehavioral approach and focuses on enabling service users to function more independently and to participate in as many of their previous roles and activities as possible, while developing their lives with privacy, dignity and respect.

Main Duties of the Job
To work as part of a multi/interdisciplinary team providing occupational therapy input within the Brainkind Neurobehavioral model to service users with acquired brain injury (ABI) and to lead on OT provision within the service. To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and service users.

About 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'll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

Rewards
You can look forward to excellent benefits, including:

• A competitive Salary of £49,387 - £56,515 per annum DOE
• 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Simply Health Plan; helps to cover the cost of routine healthcare treatments. Further information can be found at www.simplyhealth.co.uk/about-us
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Free parking
• Company Pension
• Long Service and Staff Awards

All clinical roles have CPD opportunities and we may support further professional development. We will consider applications from candidates who require sponsorship.

Job Responsibilities

• To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with highly developed skills and knowledge in neurological rehabilitation, potentially as the sole clinician but with supervision (which may be remote) of a more senior OT. To accept professional accountability and responsibility.
• To manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
• 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 interventions bringing specialist knowledge to more complex cases.
• To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure.
• 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 in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention according to the neurobehavioural model.
• To work with service users, family/carers and outside agencies in a sensitive and flexible way considering the most appropriate environment for assessment and intervention and responding to changing needs, circumstances and cultural issues. To maintain the highest levels of integrity during all communications.

Person Specification
Qualifications - Essential

• About you:
• What are we looking for?
• The successful applicant will have a Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Registered with the HCPC
• Specialist knowledge of OT interventions in ABI e.g. cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation.
• Experience of working with service users with neurological deficits or acquired brain injury. Able to manage complex dysphagia within an adult neurology caseload
• Minimum of 4 years post registration with at least 2 years experience working with neurological conditions (this may include experience as part of a mixed caseload or prequalification experience).
• Valid UK Driving licence and willingness to drive service users in unit vehicles.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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