Job Introduction
Social Care Occupational Therapy Aide
An exciting part time opportunity (22 hours Wednesday- Friday) has arisen to join our forward-thinking Adult Social Care Occupational Therapy Team at The Hollies in Midsomer Norton.
If you have a background in health or social care and are keen to work with people who have long term disabilities to support and increase their independence in their own homes across North East Somerset, this could be just the job for you!
You will have the benefit of hybrid working to balance working remotely from home and office, whilst having regular support and supervision from the team.
Interviews will take place on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications.
So, what are you waiting for? Apply today!
Main Responsibility
As a Social Care Occupational Therapy Aide your days will be varied and fulfilling and include:
- Undertaking assessments for adults in their own homes who have long-term physical disabilities, to prevent, reduce or delay the need for care.
- Making recommendations for minor and major home adaptations
- Assessing for equipment to promote independence and safety at home
- Carrying out assessments for re-housing applications
The Ideal Candidate
You have experience in a health or adult social care background.
You are a people person with a desire to make a positive change for the service users who you work with.
You have strong communication skills and organisational skills and are a team player.
Working experience of IT systems, Microsoft Outlook and Word.
Car driver essential.
Package Description
Feel valued as a Social Care OT Aide within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £24,720 (pro rata) and access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
