Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Jobs

Job Title:  Specialist Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  NELFT – Grays Court Community Hospital
Area: North East London NHS 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Stroke Neurology. Provide inpatient assessment, rehabilitation and discharge planning on a stroke unit to stroke patients. Experience in stroke rehab including cognitive rehab. Working hours: shifts, 08.30 – 16.30 with 30 mins rest. Monday to Friday. 37.5 hours per week.
Code: U. GH04Q.013008.B12605
 

Job Title:  Specialist Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  NELFT – Vicarage Fields Health Centre – Havering, Barking and Dagenham
Area: North East London NHS 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Stroke Neurology. To cover vacancy. Carry a complex caseload of patients with diagnosis of neurological conditions and stroke, offering assessment and treatment programmes. Work as part of MDT and support junior staff. Individual needs to be a car driver and own a car as the team cover the areas of Havering and B&D visiting patients in their own homes/local community. Individual also requires experience in the fields of stroke and/or neurology. Working hours: shifts, 08.30 – 16.30.
Code: U. GH0XF. 013008.B12604
 

Job Title:  Physiotherapist – Band 6
Area: Essex NHS
Salary:  £negotiable 
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job details:  Physiotherapist required to start asap for 12 weeks. Early Supported Discharge Team, Stroke & Neuro. JD available on request: Physiotherapist to join specialist stroke and Neurological rehabilitation team.
The role will involve providing Stroke and Neurological rehabilitation in an inpatient ward as well as a community setting within the Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team (ESD).
We are looking for someone with considerable neurological and community experience who is keen to continue expanding and developing their skills.  The ideal candidate will have postgraduate training within neurology, the ability to effectively manage a complex caseload of patients, excellent time management skills and the ability to work under their own initiative.
This position will provide excellent opportunities to develop critical experience and leadership skills along with working within an extremely supportive team.  The Trust is committed to promoting continuing professional development along with looking at new and creative ways of working.  A flexible approach is required to accommodate the changing needs of the service along with the drive to influence service development.
Preferably a car driver so can also complete Community Work in West Essex but not essential
Working hours: Monday – Friday, 09.00 – 17.00.
Code:  U.009008.B12589

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist – Band 6  (3 roles)
Location:  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust – Southend Hospital
Area:  Essex NHS
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Inpatient acute wards. Management of acutely unwell patients on respiratory, medical and stroke wards. Seating assessment skills. Delirium assessment and management. Rapid assessment and discharge planning skills for inpatients. Working hours: Monday to Friday, 08.30 – 16.30.
Code: U. LMS2566525. 005008.B12535
 

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Location:  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust – Basildon University Hospital
Area:  Essex NHS
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Acute adult inpatients. Ongoing – approval one month at a time. The assessment of older patients on the inpatient wards to ensure safe discharge including provision of equipment necessary for discharge and referral on to the most appropriate discharge pathway, working closely with physio colleagues. Working hours: Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 17.00.
Code: U. LMS2564531. 005008.B12534
 

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Location:  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust – Basildon University Hospital
Area:  Essex NHS
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Occupational Therapy rapid initial assessments, discharge dependent equipment provision in line with sound clinical reasoning, liaison with multiple agencies, functional assessments and care planning.
To cover A&E, frailty ward and front door/ambulatory wards. Admission avoidance in front door acute hospital setting. Supporting on general medical wards and other escalation areas as required. Working hours: Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 17.00.
Code: U. LMS2560383. 005008.B12533
 

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation Trust  
Area:  Suffolk/Essex NHS
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing                     
Job details:  Occupational Therapist required to:
Deliver a high standard OT service in designated clinical areas.
Manage a defined complex caseload under the management of the Team Leader, using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan and evaluate OT interventions, ensuring compliance with HCPC, RCOT, CQC and Trust clinical and quality standards.
To ensure as far as is reasonably practical the safety of the patients in your care.
To plan and organise a designated caseload of complex patients within the designated service and own professional activities under the management of Team Leader.
To work with the patient and carers to identify and meet OT goals, using standardised and OT assessment tools to assess their skills deficits, occupational needs and achieve functional fitness for timely discharge.
In collaboration with the patient, to plan and implement single or a programme of interventions using treatment techniques to meet the patient’s needs re; timely discharge.  These will be achieved using professional and theoretical knowledge, and specialist clinical reasoning skills.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment interventions to measure progress and ensure effectiveness, involving patient, carer and MDT as appropriate.
To ensure Therapy goals are integral to the multidisciplinary care plan re: safe and timely discharge.
To apply an enhanced understanding of effects and impact of illness, frailty and disability on patient’s abilities and provide advice and education regarding lifestyle changes / adaptations to their physical and social environment.
To use frequent periods of light / moderate physical effort to carry out interventions with patients depending on their health status and needs.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties, as an autonomous practitioner.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care. 
To respect the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients and carers and contribute to the provision of a service that is sensitive to these needs.
To be responsible for the safe and competent use of equipment and patient appliances and aids by patients and by junior and student therapists, through teaching, training and supervision of practice.
Experience:

• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Comprehensive range of junior rotations with experience of complex caseload management.
• Experience of facilitating discharges from the acute setting and/or managing a caseload of patients within the community.
• In-service training and reflective learning
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Prioritisation of workload

Qualifications:

• BSc / MSc Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist

Knowledge:

• Broad knowledge of; respiratory, neurology, elderly and trauma and orthopaedic conditions and their management.
• Principles and practices of rehabilitation / reablement
• Sound clinical reasoning
• Literature search/review
• Current evidence-based practice
• Detailed anatomy and physiology relevant to the speciality
• Health and Safety and risk awareness

Code: U.019007.B12443
 

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist
Location:  Southend-on-Sea City Council
Area:  Essex Social Services
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length: Ongoing.                    
Job details:  Adults. Must have Major Adaptations. Minimum 2 days in the office.
Code: U. 422256. 012007.B12380
 

Job Title:  Paediatric Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  HCRG Care Ltd – West Essex CCG  
Area: Essex NHS
Salary:  £negotiable 
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job details:  Community Occupational Therapy. To cover vacancy. Specialist band 6 paediatric Occupational Therapist, to provide specialist assessment and management of infants, children and young people aged 0-19 across community settings and in local specialist educational provisions.
Code:  U. Paediatric Occupational Therapist. 012007.B12378
 

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