Military Medical Personnel - Loughborough - Occupational Therapist - DMRC Stanford Hall - 30 hours

Occupational Therapist - DMRC Stanford Hall - 30 hours

Ref: DMRC38284
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Start Date:02 Jun 2025

End Date:31 Mar 2026

JOB DESCRIPTION - SERVICE REQUIREMENTS
•The Occupational Therapy (OT) Lead will work autonomously, without direct supervision and be accountable for own professional actions. They will support the delivery of a peripatetic OT service within OH.
•Deliver care for the Defence service population, liaising with the chain of command (CoC), single services (sS) and other specialist Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) pillars.
•Assess and evaluate work demands, to facilitate the employment of downgraded service personnel and those with additional employment requirements.
•Be skilled at assessing Service Personnel with a range of diagnoses and interpreting complex biopsychosocial factors which may impact on the Service Person’s ability to return to work, including the impact on functional capacity of the diagnosis and prognosis.
•Undertake specific OT standardised and non-standardised assessments of function and activities such as workplace adaptions, Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) and job demand analysis. This will involve lone working, making complex clinical decisions and generating specialist reports.
•Application of human factor and vocational rehabilitation principles in clinical activities such as ergonomic and workplace assessments, and job demand analysis, alongside other OT / OH clinical activities.
•Provide specialist advice and guidance to service personnel, the CoC and other healthcare professionals following OT / OH intervention, aligned to professional and organisational policies.
•Deliver complex, specialist OT and OH interventions, collaboratively with the service personnel and the CoC.
•Use advanced clinical reasoning to interpret and analyse highly complex clinical and non-clinical evidence to develop comprehensive intervention plans in support of return or retention in work.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE
•Current certificate of Hepatitis B, Rubella, measles, and Varicella immunity
•Current driving licence. The role is peripatetic and cannot be delivered using public transport.
•Completing or working towards postgraduate / Level 7 training in Occupational Health, Vocational Rehabilitation or other relevant field of practice
•May be required to work outside of standard working hours and support other DPHC sites where there is a business need for them to do so. This will be within a reasonable travelling distance defined in MoD policy.

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Occupational Therapist - DMRC Stanford Hall - 30 hours

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