Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist - Milton Keynes
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Location: | Milton Keynes, MK4 2JA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0462-25-0070 |
Summary
Your responsibilities will include: 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.