Come and work for one of the longest-running charities and independent hospitals in the UK. Set in a beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building, with big gardens and space for our residents to engage in music, art and even pottery workshops, the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability is more than a hospital. The RHN is a community in which everyone comes together to help adults with neurological disability achieve the best possible quality of life.

Job Title: Occupational Therapist (Band 7)

Contract Type: Fixed Term 18 month contract

Salary range: £46,660 - £59,198 per annum

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Putney, Southwest London

Benefits:

• Generous Annual Leave entitlement
• We support flexible working patterns - talk to us about what works for you
• Pension scheme
• Free parking (rare in London!)
• Blue Light Card
• On-site cafeteria
• RHN Wellbeing Programme and EAP service
• RHN Volunteering opportunities

About the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

The RHN is a leading national centre of excellence, providing adult person-centred services that span the entire care pathway from post-acute rehabilitation services to end of life care, for people with complex Neuro-disability and their families, underpinned by a strong research and education programme.

About the role

We are seeking a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Clinical Operations team in RHN. Your key responsibility is to prepare and administer therapeutic Occupational Therapy programmes as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will be a part of a team who provides specialist patient-centred assessments and treatments with a complex neurological clinical caseload, along with being a part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible to provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and the IPR process. You will also be responsible for ongoing service development projects.

Our Occupational Therapists work across all service areas at RHN, covering the following areas:

• Brain Injury Service (BIS) –Rehab pathway and PDOC pathway
• Ventilation service
• Neuro-behavioural services
• Young adults service
• Specialist Nursing Home services

We offer and encourage both internal and external training and development opportunities such as Postural Management, PDOC (Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness), SMART, Splinting, Casting and many more.

RHN is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer that respects and values the differences of our people to achieve their full potential.