Paediatric Occupational Therapist 40£/hr

Medical Staffing is urgently looking for an Occupational Therapist  who can work the below requirement:

Skills/Experience required:

- 4-5 years paediatric experience 

- Acute/Neuro rehab/inpatient hospital experience

- Preferably not a therapist who only has school placement experience 

- Start date ASAP 

-End date ONGOING- SERVICE DEPENDANT

-Monday to Friday

-08:45/09:00 to 17:00

-Band 6/7

Day to day requirements for outpatient therapist:

- Seeing regular outpatients for assessment and treatment, 0 - 15 years of age, however majority of the caseload is under 10 years old

- Writing assessment reports and discharge reports in a timely fashion 

- Formulating home exercise programs

- Liaison with MDT including medical 

- Caseload varies with diagnoses - neuro, autism, developmental delay, intellectual delay, school age therapy; clinical support will be provided for treatment planning and clinical reasoning

- May be asked to support the team with inpatients when no outpatients are booked, this is predominantly neuro rehab and long term stay neuro. Including positioning, equipment provision, splinting, caregiver education, and MDT working 

- Outpatients are often done jointly with speech therapy and physiotherapy for support and MDT working

Day to day requirements in patient therapist:

- Seeing regular inpatients for initial assessments and ongoing treatment

- Writing assessment reports, discharge reports, equipment motivation letters 

- Attending MDTS, goal setting and treatment planning sessions with MDT

- Managing equipment needs 

- Facilitating positioning and postural support needs, caregiver education, NS training, splinting, MDT working  

- Caseload will be predominantly neuro rehab and long term stay patients, depending on level of experience there may be an opportunity to assist on PICU

- Working with the larger MDT - PT/SALT/Music/Education

Benefits:

• Payrate 35-40£/hr

• Ongoing job

• Free and efficient compliance registration process

• Weekly pay

• Refer a friend scheme T&C's apply. 

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

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📩To apply, please put your details forward for this job directly to me on📞 07521777330 /03333052750 EXT: 114

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📨jurgita.lasickiene@medicalstaffing.co.uk

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📥Alternatively please Apply on CV Library- Occupational Therapist- Paediatric by Medical Staffing in London Ref: 221237698 (cv-library.co.uk)

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