Job Introduction
Social Care Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our forward-thinking Adult Social Care Occupational Therapy Team in the beautiful World Heritage City of Bath and surrounding area across Bath and North East Somerset.
If you are an experienced occupational therapist with a proven background in adult social care and are looking to advance your skills and expertise in complex casework, supervision and to support development of the service, whilst having the flexibility to work remotely from home and office, then this could be the job for you!
Main Responsibility
As a Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist you will:
- Triage referrals to the OT service.
- Undertake occupational therapy assessments for service users with complex needs in their own homes
- Offer solutions to maintain or improve independence and well-being through the timely provision of advice, equipment, minor adaptations and assistive technology.
- Carry out moving and handling risk assessments and formulate moving and handling plans in conjunction with service users, their carers and family members,
- Assess for provision of specialist equipment and where appropriate, make recommendations for adaptations in accordance with the relevant Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) legislation to ensure social and housing services meet their statutory responsibilities.
- Provide formal supervision and support to occupational therapy colleagues within the OT team.
- Support and advise the Occupational Therapy Team Manager with management tasks to develop the service as required, according to service needs.
The Ideal Candidate
You are an experienced occupational therapist with a proven background in adult social care and have HCPC registration.
You have in-depth understanding of social care legislation, are experienced in managing complex cases and have a passion for providing solutions and making a positive difference to maximise independence for people with disabilities in their own homes.
Access to a car for work purposes is essential.
Interviews will happen 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!
If you’d like to discuss the role further, please contact:
Alison Thomas, Occupational Therapy Team Manager, alison.thomas@hcrgcaregroup.com
Jo Webb, Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist, jo.webb@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
You will receive £36,418- £39,540 and AFC terms and conditions including an NHS pension.
In addition, we are offering a Golden Hello payment of £2000.
As well as AfC terms and conditions, you’ll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- 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 100% 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.
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