Occupational Therapist - Community/Care Home

Location Fleet
Job type Contract
Salary £30 per hour
Reference 165862

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is currently looking for an experienced Band 7 Community/Care Home Occupational Therapist to work based in Fleet.

The pay rate for this locum Community/Care Home Occupational Therapist job is £30 per hour (assignment rate) and is a 3-month contract.

Working Hours:

  • Ideally Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm.
  • Weekends if possible and/or requested by the worker.
  • Working pattern can be flexible.

Main Duties:

  • Assess, prescribe, and advise on correct management for contractures and pressure relieving equipment.
  • Provide guidance to care home staff on specialist seating.
  • Audit and service development; relationship building with care homes and staff.
  • Advice and teaching as appropriate 
  • Whilst the caseload will be predominantly working with patients within care homes, the OT will be required to have generalist community therapy skills to undertake routine community therapy and rehab with patients in their own homes (not in care homes).

Requirements of the Community/Care Home Occupational Therapist:

  • Degree or equivalent within Occupational Therapy.
  • HCPC registered as an Occupational Therapist.
  • At least two years of post-qualifying experience working as an Occupational Therapist.
  • Available to start as soon as possible.
  • Experience of working in community and off working in care homes.
  • Experience in project work, audit, and service improvement; teaching skills; partnership working.
  • Car driver to work across Northeast Hampshire with business insurance.

Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:

  • Daily payroll
  • Free DBS and compliance service
  • Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive occupational therapy knowledge
  • Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each candidate you refer who we successfully place
  • Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
  • Clinical governance support
  • In house payroll system
  • Revalidation
  • Industry-leading shift booking system
  • Nationwide coverage including the Channel Islands

Contact:
This Band 7 Community/Care Home Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Ross Welton; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best-placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.