Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and 300 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Services Occupational Therapist to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Camden
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Occupational Therapist Pay Rate: £30.73 per hour (assignment rate)
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties of the Social Services Occupational Therapist:
- To assess clients in community setting providing appropriate support interventions including equipment and adaptation provision
- To work closely as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure that a clients comprehensive adult social care needs are delivered seamlessly and without delay
- To work to the Adult Social Care operational principles in order to provide high quality and effective occupational therapy support and interventions
- To act as a key contact point for customers, taking a view of wider needs, pulling in advice and support as required and engaging multi-disciplinary, housing and social care colleagues
- To promote the independence of service users via the provision of occupational therapy support, advice and intervention including; educative techniques, equipment, adaptations, moving & handling intervention, telecare and re-housing reports as necessary
- To manage and monitor a varied workload of cases with a range of complexities across the disabilities spectrum, taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities, ensuring statutory responsibilities are undertaken
- To exercise professional discretion to tailor support and broker a range of appropriate services, ensuring it is proportionate to the customers’ needs (taking account of their informal network) and individualised to their circumstances
- To contribute to an environment of continuous learning, sharing good practice and working with colleagues to address obstacles to progress collaboratively
- To document cases accurately but ensure this is proportionate and only includes salient information
- To use professional skills to enable individuals and their personal networks to meet their desired outcomes
- To undertake risk assessments and develop positive risk management strategies
- To act as a Trusted Assessor in areas such as wheelchair prescription and mobility assessments
Requirements of the Social Services 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 Services Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Reece Golding; 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 you work placement.
