Senior Occupational Therapist In Neurosciences

The postholder will be a member of the neuroscience OT team, providing comprehensive OT services to children and families that are referred and accepted. This will involve supporting clinical activity across the MDTs of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Neuro-rehab. The post holder with work with children admitted to the hospital as a result of a brain tumour, traumatic brain injury, neurological disorders or those under investigation due to new neurological presentations and/or neural tube defects. The role encompasses supporting the neuro-rehabilitation of children during their stay in CHI-TS and supporting their safe onward discharge to home, community or specialised centres.

The post holder will maintain appropriate clinical competencies to work across the neuroscience service, whilst supporting junior members of staff to carry out their clinical duties. The post holder will support the service development of the OT neurosciences service whilst acting as lead for one of the clinical MDTs and associated OT service developments.

The post-holder will contribute to departmental cross cover as directed by the OT Manager and Neuroscience Clinical Specialist.

Essential Criteria:

· A recognised validated qualification in Occupational Therapy

· Must be CORU registered and have CORU number stated on application

· Minimum of 3 years’ post-graduate clinical occupational therapy experience in a relevant clinical area

· Experience working with children in paediatric neuro-disability

· Demonstrate evidence of recent formal continuing professional development relevant to the required area of specialism, in the form of post-graduate qualifications or relevant courses.

* Please note that you must submit a cover letter with your CV, this forms part of your application and CV’s will not be accepted without a detailed cover letter.

The closing date for submissions of CV’s and cover letter is Monday 30th September 2024 by 17:00. Applications must be completed through the advertised post on CHI.jobsby clicking ‘Apply for Job’.

Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.

For informal enquiries for this specialty/department, please contact Colette Slevin, Occupational Therapist in Charge III, 01 8784542 Colette.slevin@childrenshealthireland.ie

For other queries relating to this recruitment process, please contact recruitment@childrenshealthireland.ie