Stroke Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Stroke Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 6 (£38,682 - £46,580)

Permanent, full time role

Mill Hill Health Centre

Locala Community Stroke Service provides comprehensive care for adults in community settings.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to join our team. We provide high quality care to patients in their own homes, community settings, and care homes.

This role requires a motivated and innovative person to work within this established service and it is vital that you are able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team including supervision and delegation to Rehabilitation Assistants.

Experience of treating patients following diagnosis of stroke, brain injury and other neurological conditions is essential.

Good communication skills, IT skills and flexibility are essential qualities. As part of your responsibilities you would undertake assessment of impact of stroke and development of treatment programmes alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and delegation to rehabilitation Assistants.

Responsibility for own caseload. If you are able to use your own initiative, be flexible in your approach, and are motivated to be part of a developing service, come and join us. Locala is committed to helping employees achieve a positive work- life balance and promotes mobile working.

Staff are provided with mobile technology.

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check and you must be able to fulfil the travel requirements of the post with access to a car and valid driving license.

About us

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy

• Flexible working-We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible
• Generous pension We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Refer a Friend Scheme-If your friend or family works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme