Specialist Occupational Therapist Stroke

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including clinical practice, and to oversee the work and professional standards of line-managed staff, ensuring safe and high-quality care. • To manage a designated caseload efficiently, organising assessments, treatment, and rehabilitation programmes while prioritising both patient and service needs, and adapting plans in response to changing circumstances. • To undertake advanced occupational therapy assessments within your specialty, evaluating all aspects of occupational performance, applying clinical reasoning to formulate goals, and developing patient-centred treatment programmes. • To communicate complex clinical information effectively with patients, carers, relatives, and multidisciplinary team members, addressing barriers such as cognitive, sensory, or language differences, and ensuring valid informed consent and understanding. • To lead and support staff development and education, supervising junior staff and students, contributing to induction programmes, appraisals, and formal training activities, and promoting high professional standards within the team. • To implement and evaluate service improvement initiatives, applying findings from audit, research, and evidence-based projects to enhance clinical practice, develop local protocols, and contribute to continuous improvement across the occupational therapy service. Job description Job responsibilities • To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including clinical practice, and to oversee the work and professional standards of line-managed staff, ensuring safe and high-quality care. • To manage a designated caseload efficiently, organising assessments, treatment, and rehabilitation programmes while prioritising both patient and service needs, and adapting plans in response to changing circumstances. • To undertake advanced occupational therapy assessments within your specialty, evaluating all aspects of occupational performance, applying clinical reasoning to formulate goals, and developing patient-centred treatment programmes. • To communicate complex clinical information effectively with patients, carers, relatives, and multidisciplinary team members, addressing barriers such as cognitive, sensory, or language differences, and ensuring valid informed consent and understanding. • To lead and support staff development and education, supervising junior staff and students, contributing to induction programmes, appraisals, and formal training activities, and promoting high professional standards within the team. • To implement and evaluate service improvement initiatives, applying findings from audit, research, and evidence-based projects to enhance clinical practice, develop local protocols, and contribute to continuous improvement across the occupational therapy service.