Liquid Personnel on behalf of its client is recruiting an Occupational Therapist to join the Adult Social Care Team in Kensington and Chelsea.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about supporting older adults and people with disabilities to live as independently as possible. In this role, you will manage a diverse caseload, undertake holistic assessments, and develop practical, person-centred solutions that enable residents to overcome challenges in their daily lives.
Working within a supportive and collaborative Adult Social Care service, you will play a key role in promoting independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes for service users across the borough.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Manage a caseload, ensuring assessments and casework are completed effectively and within required timescales.
- Undertake holistic assessments of service users and carers, identifying needs and priorities.
- Assess and advise residents on their daily living needs.
- Recommend and arrange appropriate equipment and minor adaptations to support independence and safety at home.
- Demonstrate and instruct service users, families and carers in the safe use and maintenance of equipment and adaptations.
- Provide advice around housing suitability and special housing needs.
- Contribute to the Occupational Therapy Duty System.
- Work closely with health, social care, voluntary sector and other partner agencies to ensure continuity of care.
- Liaise with relevant departments and external agencies regarding Disabled Facilities Grants.
- Maintain accurate and concise professional records, statistics and departmental documentation.
- Support the supervision of Occupational Therapy Assistants and students where required.
- Contribute to service development, policy reviews, projects and professional initiatives.
- Represent the OT team at meetings and working groups when required.
Benefits:
- £30.47 per hour
- Temporary opportunity within Adult Social Care
- Opportunity to work with a London local authority
- Supportive and collaborative professional environment
- £2,300 annual Recruitment & Retention Supplement attached to the permanent role
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- A Diploma of the College of Occupational Therapists or BSc in Occupational Therapy.
- Current registration as an Occupational Therapist with the HCPC.
- Experience working with older people and/or people with disabilities.
- Strong experience undertaking holistic assessments and identifying appropriate outcomes.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its impact on service users.
- An understanding of current professional issues within Occupational Therapy and Adult Social Care.
- Awareness of Health & Safety legislation and guidance.
- An understanding of the issues affecting disabled people living in an inner-city environment.
- Excellent communication, partnership-working and customer-service skills.
- The ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines and maintain high professional standards.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
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 by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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