Social Care Occupational Therapist

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Care Occupational Therapist to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Location: Spalding

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Occupational Therapist Pay Rate: £47.63 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working with us:

• Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
• Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
• Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious Occupational Therapist roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
• Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
• Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer an Occupational Therapist and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many Occupational Therapists you can refer.
• Professional Development: Working as a locum Occupational Therapist provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.

Duties of the Social Care Occupational Therapist:

• Responsible for providing statutory professional occupational therapy as part of a team supporting adults with care and support needs to live independently in the community through provision of advice, retraining, equipment and adaptations to their lived environment.
• You will demonstrate through practice experience a commitment to strengths based practice and skills in supporting people to identify and build support networks to achieve their identified outcomes and maximise their independence, providing advice and support to carers.
• This work is done in close collaboration with other specialist colleagues and agencies.
• Any activity will reflect service user’s personal, social, cultural and economic needs and will relate to environmental factors that govern their lifestyle.
• You will be expected to work with autonomy managing a more complex case load and demonstrate a multi-agency approach integrating your practice with colleagues across the health and care sector.
• There is an expectation that the post holder will develop a special interest in a particular area e.g. moving and handling, learning disabilities, equipment, housing, transition and provide advice/support to peers when appropriate. Work may include travel outside the county.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with people who use services that understand the impact and long term consequences of disability. This may involve collaboration and consultation with colleagues in health and other agencies. Assessing people’s needs including any non-Social Care needs e.g. housing, health care and work.
• Manage a varied and complex caseload with supervision and advice from the Lead Practitioner at a level of complexity appropriate to the post holder's experience, and professional capability and be accountable for their professional practice.
• Manage a varied and complex caseload with supervision and advice from the Lead Practitioner at a level of complexity appropriate to the post holder's experience, and professional capability and be accountable for their professional practice.
• Identify and assess needs holistically involving service users and carers. Planning and designing innovative solutions to maximise independence of people with disabilities.
• Able to work as part of a team offering support and specialist advice to colleagues and acting as a representative of occupation therapists as and when required.
• Develop person centred care and support plans which promote independence, rehabilitation and take due regard for the health and safety of people using services, informal carers and care workers.
• Supervise up to four non-registered Social Care practitioners (e.g. Equipment and Adaptations Officers or Moving and Handling Review Officers), including planning, allocation and checking of work including setting targets, dealing with day to day capability and conduct issues/ providing basic staff welfare and support/ identify training needs.
• Supervise/mentor students or act as Practice Educator, where appropriate to Occupational Therapy students and mentor newly qualified OT's undertaking the preceptorship programme.
• Undertake moving and handling risk assessments according to the Moving and Handling policy, ensuring that the outcomes are appropriately recorded and the risks managed.
• Able to present cases in appropriate, suitable and concise manner and undertake the tasks required following the decision in a manner which assists progress and contributes to the positive reputation of the Directorate.
• Work in partnership with Agencies in relation to discharge, joint working, recommending services be provided by other agencies and establishment of joint care packages.
• Ensure case files and records are accurate in line with Directorate policies and procedures.
• Work within and act in accordance with Lincolnshire County Council Adult Care policies and procedures including Lincolnshire's Safeguarding policies and Procedures.
• The post holder may be expected to concentrate on specific areas of work arising from organisational need. This includes developing a special interest in a particular area of practice

Requirements of the Social Care Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent experience within social services / local authority / council
• Registered with the HCPC

Contact:

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

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists as well as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS Occupational Therapists applications are also welcome as we have vacancies available within the NHS.

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 your work placement.