Job overview

Are you an Occupational Therapist with an interest in stroke and rehabilitation looking for a new challenge to work within an in-patient stroke rehabilitation setting? 

Would you like to work as part of a supportive integrated multi-disciplinary team delivering specialist rehabilitation and an opportunity to develop your rehabilitation skills.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at our Sub-Acute Stroke Rehab Unit (SSARU). The Unit meets the needs of people who are unable to return home immediately after an acute hospital stay, as they need specialist rehabilitation following their stroke. The unit consists of 30 beds at South Bristol Community Hospital, which provides an environment where individuals can receive rehabilitation assessment, along and therapy and support from our multidisciplinary team, to develop independence before they return home.

You will develop your clinical skills with a varied caseload of patients requiring inpatient stroke rehabilitation and be supported by experienced senior therapists. Regular supervise and training opportunities will be provided.

Main duties of the job

• With the support of senior staff be responsible for the initial holistic assessment, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care for patients following a stroke
• Use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate, patient- centred intervention programmes
• Facilitate appropriate referrals to other services or investigations based on your assessment to ensure holistic patient care
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team  and share knowledge providing holistic and specialist skills supported by a robust competency framework  
• To use occupational therapy skills, techniques in functional and standardised assessment & interventions as an autonomous practitioner
• Create person centred, goal-based treatment plans using outcome based approach
• To assess and arrange the provision of equipment and/or adaptations
• Supervise members of the team including peers, students and unregistered workforce
• To maintain accurate, informative, legal and contemporaneous records of all interventions
• Actively participate in training
• Work within your scope of practice
• With the support of senior colleagues, identify and work towards specific objectives and to actively participate in service development projects and audit as required. 

Working for our organisation

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.