Static Neuro-Rehab Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 02 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £46,419.00 to £55,046.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46419.00 - £55046.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-26-0002 |
Summary
Please see full list of requirements attached. Overview of Clinical Responsibilities To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, and professional organisations.. To ensure that the client and/or their carer has an understanding of treatment protocols and gives informed consent to examination and treatment. To successfully manage, modify and prioritise a caseload of clients with complex needs, with supervision and guidance as necessary from senior staff, taking a key worker role as indicated. To undertake a range of neurological and/or complex multipathology occupational therapy assessments of clients with complex needs through subjective questioning, objective examination and the use of other resources. To prioritise factors involved in the clients presenting condition through clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, clients prognosis and other physical, social, emotional and mental health issues. To agree personalised goals for treatment with clients and/or their carer and ensure that they are supported through their rehabilitation e.g. key worker, carer assessment and specialist sign posting routinely occurring. To maintain a high standard of clinical practice which is evidence-based, and uses standardised assessment and outcome measures, where appropriate. To deliver evidence based treatment programmes within a team approach in a variety of settings and evaluate and review occupational therapy treatment/interventions within a multi-disciplinary framework and modify as necessary. To deliver routine and specialist Occupational Therapy interventions with clients assessing their occupational needs and addressing quality of life, and physical, cognitive, affective, social, and environmental issues utilising appropriate individual or group treatment modalities. To use a range of interventions within rehabilitation and complex case management e.g. when managing tone, motor recovery, increasing participation in ADLs. To actively identify the need for joint working opportunities To delegate and monitor appropriately work to rehabilitation assistants To work autonomously at times in isolated community situations which vary in relation to local socio-economic and multi-cultural needs. To use knowledge of other multi-disciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure effective referral management and achieve best client care including seamless transfer of care. To have the ability, knowledge and skills required for moving and handling people in hospital and community environments and supporting the formulation of a routine risk assessments/ handovers. To be physically able to install specialist occupational therapy equipment in client homes applying safe manual handling at all times, especially when doing so in restricted spaces To advise and teach the relevant carers/health workers to participate in on-going rehabilitation care programmes for clients, as appropriate and ensure that self-management activities are embedded routinely into rehabilitation and transfer of care plans . To participate in routine multidisciplinary assessments of need across health and social care prior to transfer of care ensuring comprehensive risk assessment and specialist rehabilitation prescriptions are used to support with appropriate and timely discharge preparation and referral onwards as needed To actively be involved in the development of new specialist clinical services within the Team. To be able to manage clinical risk in own caseload and support other staff to comply e.g. manual handling risk assessment and local policy regarding lone working. To know when to escalate risk concerns to supervisor and senior management To assist in the development of local best practice clinical uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary guidelines To ensure that client and service records are recorded and maintained as per local guidelines and that IT databases are used To independently or jointly with other professions, write reports outlining recommendation for discharge from the team. These are communicated to appropriate external agencies i.e. referrer, GPs, Social Services and Community Therapists To contribute to the efficient, day-to-day, running, of the team.