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Specialist Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,939.00 to £50,697.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42939.00 - £50697.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton, SM2 5PT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9282-25-0517 |
Summary
For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification. Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Working autonomously in ward and outpatient settings to provide complex clinical assessment of the biomechanical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, perceptual and interpersonal deficits affecting the functioning of individuals with cancer, their families and carers through the use of advanced clinical reasoning. Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitation programmes specific to patients needs based on activity analysis using a client-centred, problem solving approach. Developing and implementing treatment and educational groups for people with cancer and their carers such as Health & Well Being groups. Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs for example paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer. Assessing, designing and fabricating static or dynamic splints specific to the individual patients needs to enable maintenance and improvement in upper limb functioning. Liaising with multi professional team within the hospital and community, to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcomes and planned coordinated packages of support across health and social care. Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning case conferences where functional independent is paramount.