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: Milton Keynes
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 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 Occupational Therapist:
- Provide expert clinical advice and support with complex hospital discharges.
- Responsible for the provision of leadership and clinical supervision of Therapists within the service.
- Work across health and social care to prevent avoidable, unplanned hospital admission and prevent re-admission.
- Hold a caseload of patients.
- Provide professional and personal support for other Home 1st staff and colleagues to work to build and maintain a cohesive team focus.
- Assess and implement specialist Therapy treatments and programmes.
- To use analytical and judgment skills on a variety of Therapy-related problems.
- To gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with people who cannot consent to treatment.
- Encourage participation of people’s families and carers in decision-making and planning mutually agreed objectives.
- Work in collaboration with other Home 1st Leads to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary activity, and organize changes to working practice.
- Propose and implement team polices/amend team policies, which may impact on other members of the Multidisciplinary team.
- Provide day-to-day Management support to the Therapy team, including participation in recruitment, appraisal and performance management.
- To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all appropriate equipment, to initiate regular audits, including training and competencies for unqualified staff.
- Updates client’s records using an electronic database.
- Have responsibility for the monitoring and prioritisation and allocation of work across the Therapy team.
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.
