Occupational Therapist

What's involved with this role:
Interim Occupational Therapist
Reference no: Newcastle 6120914875700
Pay rate: £22.50 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: NEWCASTLE
Enhanced DBS required for this role
An Occupational Therapist is required to join the team and provide an Occupational Therapy service to meet the identified needs of people with a physical disability. The team provides a city-wide service to disabled people requiring assessment of their needs at home and the post involves close working with a variety of other agencies both within and outside of the City Council. The team is very busy with a high referral rate.
Key responsibilities:
Carry out a comprehensive assessment of service users including those with complex needs to promote and maintain maximum independence in accordance with the Directorate’s statutory duty.
Carry a full caseload in accordance with level of experience.
Liaise with, and offer professional advice to other professions as in Health, Social Services and voluntary sector, etc. in relation to the provision of occupational therapy services to service users.
Provide advice and instruction on appropriate equipment and ensure its safe use by all those involved, e.g., service user, family, carers.
Liaise with other directorates/agencies/contractors with regard to making recommendations for major structural adaptations.
Make recommendations on re-housing where adaptations are inappropriate.
Provide advice and support to the service user and their family or carers.
Keep accurate and up to date records in accordance with Directorate policy and procedures, compiling reports and statistical data as required.
Participate in initiatives around quality issues within the Directorate.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Current HCPC registration.
Relevant Occupational Therapy qualification such as a Degree in Occupational Therapy or a Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of resolving moving and handling needs.
Experience of working within an NHS or Adult Social Care setting in a reablement and/or rehabilitation role.
Experience of multi-agency working and of working in partnership with other agencies.
Have a good working knowledge of legislation, and policy surrounding disability, housing, building adaptation funding, direct payments and personal budgets.
Knowledge of statutory and legislative requirements.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Well developed interpersonal skills.
Ability to carry out assessments on service users, to identify needs and to create support plans.
Good organisational skills.
Ability to work as part of a team, and the confidence to work alone
Ability to work under pressure.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Job Ref: Newcastle 6120914875700
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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