Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 300 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Social Services Occupational Therapist to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Peterborough
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Occupational Therapist Pay Rate: £40 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:
- The post holder will provide assessment and provision of Occupational Therapy interventions to adults and older people with challenging physical and functional difficulties in the community resulting in the need for specialist housing adaptation, simple and challenging equipment needs taking into account the needs of the client and their relatives and carers.
- Emphasis will be placed upon rehabilitation, health promotion, equipment and adaptations, etc where appropriate, while maintaining links with other members of the team and health care professionals.
- The post holder will work under the guidance of lead practitioners within the team to gain best practice and consolidation of knowledge.
- To perform a specialist community Occupational Therapy role with disabled people of all ages who have difficult health, social, psychological / psychosocial and housing needs and who have been referred.
- To assess the functional needs of disabled people (18 years and older), including those with multi-pathology and variable conditions, physical and mental health conditions, chronic and terminal illness and learning disabilities residing currently in the community.
- To provide a specialist response for difficult cases, formulating and implementing intervention plans aimed at reducing the impact of disability and ill health.
- To manage a defined caseload of challenging needs as an autonomous practitioner, evidencing high-level problem solving and reasoning skills, and independence of judgement
- To have a working knowledge of relevant legislation including Care Act & housing legislation, with a detailed knowledge of the eligibility criteria, relevant procedures and policies relating to social care, health and housing organisations.
- To develop a working knowledge of the principles of housing construction and design, technical plans and housing adaptations with a good understanding of the complex interaction between health, housing and social issues and their impact on functional ability.
- To use communication, reasoning, and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship in all cases with a diversity of difficult needs, managing barriers to communication.
- To carry out an initial contact assessment with either the client, carer or other healthcare professional to establish eligibility for occupational therapy intervention using Care Act legislation and other relevant procedures and policies relating to social care, health and housing organisations. To advise and support with supervision of Caseworkers and Occupational Therapy Assistants.
- To use a detailed knowledge of a wide range of medical conditions and their functional effects to the client in terms of socio-economic, psychosocial and personal implications and carry out and record comprehensive assessments of people with challenging and specialist needs within the home environment.
- To perform occupational analysis and risk evaluation leading to the formulation of intervention options which reduce the consequences of disability and deteriorating conditions.
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 Alex Blackwell; 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.
