Occupational Therapist

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Musselburgh, Scotland

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £30 – £35 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 Occupational Therapist:

• To provide a responsive and needs led Occupational Therapy service, ensuring appropriate services are provided to meet clients’ needs in accordance with the Council’s statutory obligations and department policies and procedures.
• Carry a caseload of varying degrees of complexity and maintain case records.
• Work with service users and carers to undertake holistic needs led assessment.
• Apply specialist Occupational Therapy knowledge and skills and work with service users and carers to identify, implement and evaluate individualised strategies and solutions which will assist them in performing their activities of daily living to their maximum level of independence, which promote safety and access and which minimise identified risks.
• Act as a consultant and undertake joint work with colleagues of different disciplines on areas of specialist Occupational Therapy expertise
• Support individuals, families and their carers with the impact of altered functional ability related to age, physical and learning disability or illness.
• Draw up, monitor and review care plans, record unmet need and care manage cases.
• Negotiate with service providers and cost packages of care.
• Participate, where necessary, in the Duty and Response System wherever necessary, respond effectively to calls/visits and make initial assessments.
• Provide advice about Social Work and related services.
• Provide reports as required to an acceptable standard.
• Undertake regular planned supervision with line manager.
• Promote service user involvement and advocate for individuals as appropriate.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement using management information and customer feedback.
• Promote a positive image of community care services by providing excellent Customer Care.

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC
• Experience of working with at least one Community Care client group
• Experience of liaising with other agencies
• Knowledge of client groups covered by Community Care legislation
• Knowledge of OT practice and understanding of effects of illness and disability
• Sound assessment skills to underpin needs led assessment
• Ability to develop effective relationships with clients, carers, colleagues and service providers
• Ability to identify and assess risk
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Effective organisational and time management skills
• A current driving licence and use of a vehicle is an essential requirement of this post

Contact:

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

We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.

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.