Sanctuary Personnel, an award-winning and renowned Recruitment Agency is looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Services Occupational Therapist to work in Haringeyon a full-time basis.
The pay rate for this locum Social Services Occupational Therapist job is £38.55 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an ongoing contract.
Duties:
- Provide First Response occupational therapy, including assessment and service provision, to disabled people within the community
- Initial assessment of service users with a presenting need following self – referral or referral from external agencies
- Assessment and provision of equipment to improve independence with activities of daily living
- Assessment for simple major adaptations (including completing specs) to home environment to enable independence and reduce risk of injury
- Manual handling assessment to reduce risk of injury to service users and carers and where feasible reduce packages of care for single handed care
- Assessment for long term packages of care if required and present at weekly Panel
- Identify Safeguarding concerns, risk assess and refer where appropriate to services to manage risk of harm to service users and promote wellbeing
- Assess capacity and ability to make informed decisions relating to assessment process as per Care and Mental Capacity Act
- Complete carers assessment to support informal carers in their role and manage risk of carer breakdown
- Identify service users appropriate for Continuing Health Care to manage complex health needs -
- Working together with service users, significant others and carers to promote independence and wellbeing
- Liaison with social care, health and partner services to provide client centred care
- Provide service user’s with relevant advice and information as per the Care Act
Requirements of the Social Services Occupational Therapist:
- Diploma of the College of Occupational Therapy – BSc in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered as an Occupational Therapist
- Recent NHS experience either pre or post qualification
- Ability to pass information accurately and concisely between service users, carers, colleagues and other agencies
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Ability to carry out functional assessments of children, adults and disabled people
- Ability to assess and prescribe appropriate moving and handling equipment
- Ability to carry out safe functional assessments
- Ability to assess risk and take appropriate action to minimise it
- Ability to use a strengths-based approach to empower people to regain their independence
- Knowledge of the needs of older and disabled people
- Experience of working with people with a wide range of impairment
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Daily payroll
- 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 Social Services Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Sebastian Dunbar; 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.
