Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 600+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Trowbridge

Contract Type: Ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £35 per hour (assignment rate)

Shift Pattern: Full time

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties:

• Support and assist the well-being of individuals and groups to assure their protection, security and development
• Safeguarding, protection and care
• Ongoing risk/needs assessment of and advice for individuals/groups
• May involve personal care activities
• Likely to involve immediate response to client
• Work with customers and carers/families to identify goals and design creative reablement support plans to achieve them
• Connect customers with local resources and facilities
• Operate within legal frameworks and defined budgets for Social Care
• Work closely with colleagues from Health, private providers, the voluntary sector and others, to support the occupational needs of customers
• Manage a busy caseload including complex and challenging cases; provide support and guidance for the management of complex and challenging cases. Be able to reprioritise work according to individual customer and service needs
• Undertake strengths based occupational therapy assessments working with customers with complex occupational needs and contentious situations (including assessment of mental capacity where appropriate); using your professional judgement to adapt your approach to the individual needs of the customer
• Design and implement innovative reablement plans for people living in complex situations to enable customers to meet their goals and reduce need for ongoing support and minimise demand for long term care
• Liaison and negotiation with family members and support staff on options to encourage independence and safe practice
• Work with customers to manage risk and record actions and strategies agreed
• Support other team members with management of risk

Requirements of the Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC
• Demonstrate competence in complex risk assessment and positive risk taking
• Car driver

Contact:

This Adult Social Care Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Ray Deb; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.