Occupational Therapist – Housing & Manual Handling

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Occupational Therapist to work in Saffron Walden on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Occupational Therapist job is £40,000 – £45,000 per annum.

Main Duties:

• To assess the client’s housing needs and provide recommendations for suitable housing and equipment, fixtures and fittings.
• Assessing, recording and reviewing manual handling and leading manual handling training courses at the client’s home.
• Competent at documenting recording case notes and presenting your cases in a variety of ways at a number of different forums.
• To represent the company in conferences and events. 

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Registered with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy.
• Minimum of 3-5 years Occupational Therapist experience specialising in Housing and Manual
• Current driving licence and access to transport with business insurance (travel expenses will be paid per HMR&C guidelines) Core Competencies
• Good clinical reasoning and application of activity analysis.
• Analytical Thinking – ability to apply logic to solve problems and to get the job done.
• Creative Thinking and Flexibility- abilities to see beyond boundaries, come up with creative solution.
• Initiative and Decision Making – Can make autonomous decisions and take responsibility for them.
• Excellent communication.
• Influence – Can enlist the support and cooperation of others and encourage them to be proactive.
• Interpersonal Awareness- The ability to have and show empathy to others with good listening skills.
• Positive mind set – having a glass half full attitude.
• Good team work and ability to support other team members when needed.
• Ability to analyse procedures and processes to ensure good and smooth outcome for the client.

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.