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 Band 6 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.
Location: Rochford
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Pay Rate: £25 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 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 a friend 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 friends you can refer.
- Professional Development: Working as a locum 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 Occupational Therapist:
- Provide effective, tailored, evidence based occupational therapy to service users who are between 11-18 years of age, using goal setting and interventions focused on re-engagement in self-care, productivity and leisure activities, and promoting health, wellbeing and independence
- To undertake occupational therapy assessments for all young people who are under the care of Poplar Ward, addressing occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling them in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
- To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.
- To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.
- To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with patients and their carers.
- To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.
- To undertake manual handling assessments ensuring other professionals and carers are aware of manual handling needs.
- To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower patients and facilitate optimal functional performance.
- To liaise with Education services, Social Services and Housing Organisations concerning provision of equipment and home adaptations.
- To manage a complex caseload.
- To apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of patients in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention, e.g. home visits.
- To make clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of patient care to assistants, junior staff, students, carers and statutory or non-statutory bodies.
- To regularly review patient’s progress in order to evaluate and interpret effectiveness of treatment plans, and amend treatment or discharge patients accordingly.
- To ensure that treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.
- To develop and initiate interventions based on the integration of theoretical knowledge in order to meet unique patient needs.
- To keep up to date clinical records in line with professional standards and local record keeping policies.
- To provide written and verbal reports as required at any stage in the treatment process in line with Occupational Therapy Clinical Governance Standards.
- Observe the requirements of relevant legislation in particular The Children’s Act (1989), The Mental Health Act (1983) and Child Section Procedures as agreed by ECPC.
Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
- Recent NHS experience
- Registered with the HCPC
Contact:
This 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 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.
