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 Social Services Occupational Therapist to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Haringey
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Occupational Therapist Pay Rate: £39.96 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 Social Services Occupational Therapist:
- To provide an initial assessment of service users with complex care and therapy needs across the teams within the Access and Independence Service: First Response, Reablement and the Assessment Service.
- Support service users to set client centred goals to promote independence and wellbeing in the home environment. Facilitate service user choice and empowerment through promoting independence, the timely provision of information, advice and support using evidence-based interventions to ensure service users maintain independence for as long as possible.
- Assessment and provision of equipment to improve independence with activities of daily living and to reduce risk of injury. This includes manual handling assessments to reduce risk of injury to service users and carers and, where feasible, reduce packages of care for single handed care.
- To independently manage a caseload, utilising effective prioritisation, delegation and time management skills to enable effective throughput of service users. 5. To identify service users appropriate for Continuing Health Care to manage complex health needs 6. To identify Safeguarding concerns, complete thorough risk assessment and refer where appropriate to services to manage risk of harm to service users. This includes situations where people may be neglected or abused in accordance with the Inter-Agency Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults
- To assess capacity and ability to make informed decisions relating to assessment process as per Care and Mental Capacity Act.
- To ensure cost effective service provision and make recommendations for specialist equipment and adaptations in accordance with eligibility criteria and departmental guidelines.
- To complete carers assessments to support informal carers in their role and manage risk of carer breakdown
- To keep accurate and up to date case records and written reports using council’s IT systems and in line with statutory and local protocols. Ensure the highest level of data quality for all information recorded, ensuring that the information is consistently timely, accurate and complete to ensure the service meets the Professions and statutory recording requirements, including case recording on Mosaic.
- To ensure confidentiality on all matters relating to service users and information obtained during employment, and not to release such information to anyone else other than those acting in an authorised official capacity in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldicott Guidance.
- To develop and maintain effective working relationships across services within Adult Social Care, as well as other specialist agencies including Acute Hospital NHS trusts, Mental Health service, D/Ns, GPs, voluntary organisations and independent care service providers.
- To promote the service to other organisations and appropriate personnel and provide guidance and information concerning Occupational Therapy service provision to other agencies, e.g. Housing Associations, Carer Agencies.
- To provide regular supervision and participate in the professional development of OT Assistants and other junior members of the team. This includes assisting in the training of Occupational Therapy student and in staff induction programs.
- To recommend changes in the Occupational Therapy role and service where appropriate. To act as a skills resource for other professionals across Adult social care and partner services when required
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 your work placement.
