Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Jobs

Job Title:  Community Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Lichfield and/or Stoke/Newcastle area
Area:  Staffordshire NHS
Salary:  £negotiable  
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job Details:  Occupational Therapist required for South-Integrated Community Occupational Therapy Team. To start asap for 12 weeks. Applicants would benefit from having worked in a social care Occupational Therapy role previously or have experience of the community setting. Knowledge of Moving and Handling people, specialist equipment, minor adaptation provision and assistive technology would be beneficial. The Team supports adults within their own homes where the primary need is physical disability with long-term health conditions. The aim of OT intervention is to assist people to remain as independent as possible in the community. JD available on request. Working hours: Full time. Monday to Friday.
Code:  U.012009.B12955
 

Job Title:  Physiotherapist – Band 6  (Part time)
Area:  Midlands NHS
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job Details:  Physiotherapist required for 12 weeks (or longer) working with the Community Learning Disabilities Team (CLDT) Physiotherapy Dept in Shropshire. This is a community-based role where the post holder will work across a variety of settings from home visits to day services and respite, and various community-bases.  The team receives referrals for, but not exclusively, falls, deteriorating mobility and posture assessments.  Therefore, this role will include falls, mobility and posture assessments for complex patients which can lead to providing interventions including exercise programmes, sleep systems and standing frames.  Due to the nature of working with patients with learning disabilities, there are occasions where work is completed in best interests; experience of gaining consent and making best interest decisions would be favourable.  The role would lend itself to someone who has previous experience with learning disabilities, or transferrable skills from working with a variety of neurological, MSK and respiratory based teams.  JD available on request:

• To provide a highly specialist Physiotherapy Service to adults with complex learning and physical disabilities, undertaking clinical diagnosis, assessment and physiotherapeutic management and interventions.
• To deliver a high standard of care using a holistic, person-centred approach on a daily basis and providing clinical leadership, teaching and supervision to members of the multi-disciplinary team

Working hours: Part time. 3 days per week.
Code: U.025007.B12499

Job Title:  CAMHS/ Neurodevelopmental Practitioner – Band 6
Area:  West Midlands NHS 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing
Job details:  CAMHS/ Neurodevelopmental Practitioner required to join Bee U Austim/ADHD team for approx. To start asap for 12 weeks. Providing Psychosocial and standardised assessments. Working with young people 5- 18 years. Must be experienced in assessment, diagnosis and ADHD interventions. Applicants considered from Mental Health/Learning Disabilities, AHP’s such as Occupational Therapists and or Speech and Language Therapist, or Social Workers with the relevant skill and experience. The postholder will be required to work as part of a highly motivated multidisciplinary team supporting in the triage referrals, providing psychosocial assessments, standardised assessments, contributing to diagnostic discussions, providing feedback to families, and writing diagnostic reports. JD available on request.  Main duties of the job

• Ensure the delivery of high-quality ND assessments within the BeeU team. The work is with children and young people aged 5-18 years with significant concerns around their social communication and interaction.
• ADHD assessment involving the interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews.
• Autism assessment involves contributing to and leading on specialist assessments for children with complex social, interaction and communication difficulties. This would include the use of standardised assessment tools e.g. ADI-R, ADOS.
• To ensure assessments are provided in line with NICE Guidance as well as other relevant local and national documentation.
• Demonstrate high personal standards in clinical practice.
• Responsible for prioritising workload, allocation of work to oneself and other staff, and to cover all levels of priority of work within the service.
• To make clinical judgements backed up by clinical reasoning and recommendations regarding appropriate actions/sign posting in consultation with multi-disciplinary staff and in accordance with the service specification.
• Knowledge of national, regional and local drivers underpinning service delivery.
• Up to date knowledge and experience of clinical developments for professionals working within Neurodevelopmental pathways and mental health children’s services.

Working hours:  Full time. Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 17.00.
Code:  U.009007.B12346

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist – Band 6
Location:  Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Redwoods Centre, Shrewsbury (Holly Ward).
Area:  Staffordshire NHS
Salary:  £negotiable  
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job Details:  Locum Occupational Therapist required for 12 weeks but may be extended. Inpatients. The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of assessments, evidence-based interventions and the evaluation of outcome measures within the mental health acute inpatient service. The post holder will work across a range of inpatient Mental Health wards, responding in a timely manner to referrals and offering the opportunity to work with a diverse service user group including older adults and adults. Experience in MH Occupational Health service required. Face to Face only. Working hours: Full time. Monday to Friday, 08.30 – 16.30. Part time hours considered.
Code:  U.028006.B12286